Arid Lands

Duration: 33

Year Published: 1967

Creator: John Heyer

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Documents the assistance given by the United Nations in developing the desert areas of Pakistan into much needed cropland. Emphasizes the need for many highly skilled persons and the time consumed by research before developmental programs such as this can be put into operation. Arid lands throughout the world are in need of this type of developmental program and to meet this need UNESCO has initiated a program for educating teachers in arid nations in the techniques of training farmers in the skills required to develop their lands.

Complete Record: Documents the assistance given by the United Nations in developing the desert areas of Pakistan into much needed cropland. Emphasizes the need for many highly skilled persons and the time consumed by research before developmental programs such as this can be put into operation. Arid lands throughout the world are in need of this type of developmental program and to meet this need UNESCO has initiated a program for educating teachers in arid nations in the techniques of training farmers in the skills required to develop their lands., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.