Soil Food
Geography: Year 10-11 • 50m
China's Loess plateau, one of the poorest regions in the country. a land renowned for floods, mudslides and famine. There is a hope however, the hope of change for the better. This documentary covers over 15 years worth of change, for an ambitious project - a new landscape on a vast scale, transforming a baron land into a green and fertile one
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