Agroforestry solutions – a bridge to a fossil fuel-free future

https://everydaygrit.com/agroforestry-solutions-a-bridge-to-a-fossil-fuel-free-future/

Agroforestry sounds technical, but it is very easy to understand. It simply means that farmers include trees, shrubs and livestock in the way that they farm. It’s a traditional form of farming practised throughout the world. And although the term was coined in the 1970s, the practice actually dates back thousands of years.

#food #food-growing #fossil-free #agroforestry #solutions #everydaygrit

Agroforestry solutions - a bridge to a fossil fuel-free future - The Inspirer

Agroforestry solutions are a powerful answer to the problem of increasing CO2 emissions. Organisations like Grow Ahead are valuable allies.

https://vimeo.com/553983264

Inhabitants

An Indigenous Perspective

Inhabitants: An Indigenous Perspective is a feature-length documentary that follows five North American tribes restoring their ancient relationships with the land while adapting to today’s climate crisis.

The film travels across diverse bioregions of North America, from deserts and coastlines, to forests, mountains, and prairies, highlighting the dramatic effects of climate change and stories of indigenous land stewardship practices, which continue to be resilient in the face of a changing climate. The film focuses on five stories: the return of prescribed fire practices by the Karuk Tribe in California; the restoration of buffalo on the Blackfeet reservation in Montana; sustained traditions of Hopi dryland farming in Arizona; sustainable forestry on the Menominee reservation in Wisconsin; and the revival of native Hawaiian food forests in Hawaii.

Although these stories are not connected geographically, and only represent a small portion of the many diverse indigenous communities leading efforts to maintain their cultural practices and identity, they all share the common dimensions of “traditional knowledges.” According to Guidelines for Considering Traditional Knowledges in Climate Change Initiatives,"[traditional knowledges] broadly refer to indigenous communities’ ways of knowing that both guide and result from their communities members’ close relationships with and responsibilities towards the landscapes, waterscapes, plants, and animals that are vital to the flourishing of indigenous cultures."

Climate change poses an immediate threat to Indigenous Peoples’ health, well-being and ways of life. Tribal nations are on the front lines of confronting climate change, including increased frequency and intensity of wildfires, higher temperatures, ecosystem changes, ocean acidification, forest loss, and habitat damage. Climate change also raises questions about what will become of spiritually and culturally significant ecosystem services that are essential to maintaining many tribes’ identities. Indigenous communities are disproportionately harmed by the changing climate as they depend more on natural resources than the US population as a whole. Negative impacts include threats to traditional foods such as fish and crops which have provided sustenance as well as cultural, economic, medicinal, and community health for countless generations.

Emerging threats have galvanized a concerted effort by several tribes to forge ahead with climate-change adaptation strategies. They are leading the way guided by indigenous traditions and are quickly adapting to and even directly counteracting the shifting climate. Examples like the Hopi dry land farming techniques show how to deal with extremely arid and hot weather; the raising of Native Bison on the prairie lands of the Midwest improves carbon sequestration while removing the need for feedstocks; and forest fire management that is being guided by native forestry practices are just a few of the stories that give insight into how much wisdom and importance the indigenous land use practices reflect; and how crucial it is that their story is heard. The indigenous land management practices in the forests, deserts, prairies and coastlines of North America have much to offer to the current conversation surrounding climate adaptation and mitigation.

The First Peoples are estimated to have lived in North America for 15,000 years. In a few short centuries Native Americans have had most of their population systematically erased, almost all their land taken, and also been forced to deal with the disastrous effects of industrialization on their remaining resources. Tribal communities have proven to be remarkably resilient, surviving in some of the most extreme environments and having endured very aggressive marginalization. We can now create a platform for helping these marginalized people share their wisdom about how to live in these lands and how their history and tradition can inform and guide us. This documentary is an effort to give Native Americans an opportunity to share their stories of resilience and wisdom in the face of extreme climatic stress. We as a society can listen and learn from these stories of time tested land use practices. Now is the moment to support Native peoples in becoming leading voices on how to design, create, imagine and live in a more sustainable and resilient world.

This past fall we had the honor of documenting the prescribed fire traditions of the Karuk Tribe in Northern California and the sustainable forestry operations of the Menominee Tribe in Wisconsin. These stories are being woven into a feature length documentary Inhabitants due out in 2020. Folks have been asking a lot about the Woodlanders series and although I took a break last summer to focus on this feature film we are ramping up for a new season of short films starting in the Pacific Northwest next month. Thanks for your patience and support. — Costa Boutsikaris (2019)

#Woodlanders is an online film series that seeks to document the work of people who care for and depend on forests for their livelihood and well-being throughout the world.

Even among today’s progressive movements of local economy and food systems, the vast global knowledge of forest livelihoods and economies are mostly undervalued and undocumented. From woodcraft and nut tree cultures of ancient Europe, to mushroom and forest medicines of Asia, there many fascinating ways of creating sustainable economies from the forests while maintaining their ecological health and complexity. While filming Inhabit - A Permaculture Perspective I fell in love with woodland cultures and felt called to research further. Over the past year I began to create an accessible archive of these stories and I hope to share this inspiring world with you. Sustainable relationships with forests regenerate and protect these wild places while also offering livelihoods to humans. Each episode will focus on a person or culture who has a sustainable relationship and/or livelihood with a forest. Join me on the journey and learn how much forests can offer. — Costa Boutsikaris

#Inhabitants #documentary #film #nature #environment #climate #FirstPeoples #IndigenousPeoples #tribal #lands #community #people #climate-change #land #reservations #land-use #aboriginal #management #fires #bushfires #wildfires #forestry #dryland #farming #food #food-growing #well-being #wisdom #way-of-life #culture #tradition #food #food-growing #practices #natural #resources #ecology #stewardship #knowledge #education #adaptation #Karuk #Blackfeet #Hopi #Menominee #Hawaii #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge #conservation #protection #preservation #sustainability #resilience #CostaBoutsikaris #InhabitFilms #docu-films

https://vimeo.com/503281211

To Which We Belong

To Which We Belong is a documentary that highlights farmers and ranchers leaving behind conventional practices that are no longer profitable or sustainable.

These unsung heroes are improving the health of our soil and sea to save their livelihoods — and our planet.

Years of industrialized agriculture have brought the world to the brink of climate disaster. To Which We Belong follows a new generation of farmers and ranchers who seek to rebuild their businesses and their planet by embracing the interconnectedness of living things.

On land long depleted by monocultured crops, Trey Hill fills the fields with colorful tangles of plant life, revivifying the soil and bringing new richness to the harvest. In Chihuahua, Mexico ranchers like Alejandro Carrillo practice revolutionary techniques in cattle herding, carving out space for wildlife to thrive again. And off the coast of Connecticut, Bren Smith re-seeds the ocean with kelp, mussels, oysters, and scallops, restoring ecosystems ravaged by commercial fishing.

Despite their difference in culture and location, these farmers and ranchers are rooted in the same belief: that to work with nature, not against it, is the answer.

Science is showing that if we draw down enough carbon from the sky back into the soil through regenerative agricultural practices, we can actually reverse climate change bringing carbon dioxide down to pre-industrial revolution levels.

So, now it’s our turn: to bring awareness and support to the ranchers and farmers doing the work to renew the earth through these simple, yet profound practices.

To Which We Belong tells the stories of nine farms and ranches going against the grain to bravely leave behind practices that are no longer profitable or sustainable.

These unsung heroes just might save their livelihoods – and our world itself.

And in this time of turmoil, it might be the best news you receive all year.

#ToWhichWeBelong #documentary #film #nature #environment #interconnectedness #soil #food #food-growing #farmers #ranchers #regenerative-agriculture #LindsayRichardson #PamelaTannerBoll #docu-films

Pandemic Brooding: Can the Permaculture movement survive the first severe test of the energy descent future?

https://holmgren.com.au/writing/pandemic-brooding/
by David Holmgren

"Outsourcing personal responsibility for due diligence to authorities is a risky strategy at the best of times; in times of challenge and rapid change the risks escalate. …

For many permies, the pandemic seems another example of hyped threat like the ‘war on weeds’, ‘war on drugs’, ‘war on terror’ used to manipulate the population to comply with some version of disaster capitalist1 solutions. Most sceptics acknowledge the virus as real, but not as dangerous as the cure in lockdowns and other draconian measures. The ‘war on the virus’ seems just as futile or misguided as all the other wars on nature, substances and concepts. So much for trying to have nuanced discussions about viruses as an essential and largely symbiotic mechanism for the exchange of genetic material and mediation of evolution!

While the closure and loss of cafés, gyms and hairdressers might not be a great loss, except to those directly affected, many of us have noticed that the official response to the pandemic tends to follow a pattern of support and strengthening of dominant corporations while leading to the weakening and likely collapse of small business and community self-organised activities. "

"The sovereignty of persons to choose freely how they grapple with the tension between autonomy and the needs of the commonwealth is not just an ideal from western Enlightenment civilisation working out how to apply the gift of fossil fuel wealth. It is a fundamental expression of how the ecology of context is constantly shifting, and that all systems simultaneously express life through bottom-up autonomy of action and top-down guidance of collective wisdom.

In times of great stability, the distilled wisdom of the collective, embodied in institutions, carries human culture for the long run. Sometimes the sanctions on the individuals who rejected the rules of the collective were harsh and, according to modern thinking, arbitrary but over long periods of relative stability, those rules kept society working. In times of challenge and change it is, ironically, dissidents at the fringes who salvage and conserve some of the truths of the dying culture into the unknown future to craft new patterns of recombinant culture…"

#DavidHolmgren #pandemic #permaculture #movement #food-growing #collective #sovereignty

Pandemic Brooding: Can the Permaculture movement survive the first severe test of the energy descent future?  - Holmgren Permaculture Writings

You can read the French translation of this piece here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBPLrr9Hph0

The Food Forest Farmers

Syntropic farming is a new and ancient regenerative agriculture practice that can be implemented in any region, in any climate, in limitless ways – even in your own back yard. For over a decade the Lotz-Keegan family have been implementing permaculture practices to regenerate a degraded hillside into an abundant food forest of native and exotic trees that feed their family, their community, the wildlife, the soil, and their souls.

Combining the practices of syntropic agroforestry with the principles of permaculture and their own deeply thoughtful approach to land regeneration, food growing, and lifestyle, this family is partnering with nature to create a humming diversity on the land and a positive story about the role of humans in an eco-system.

PermaDynamics https://www.permadynamics.net/

#food #food-growing #food-forest #syntropic #agroforestry #syntropic-agroforestry #food-forests #regenerative-agriculture #permaculture #regeneration #food-growers #KlausLotz #PermaDynamics #HappenFilms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIqFsePvAqg

#TreesAreTheKey

This inspirational 40-minute documentary has been made in conjunction with The Word Forest Organisation, a Dorset charity that plants trees, builds classrooms and facilitates education in rural Kenya. It also shines a spotlight on the women’s empowerment group, Mothers of the Forest.

Tim Tyson Short is an outstanding filmmaker and over the past three decades he has made films for broadcasters and developmental organisations worldwide. Back in February 2019, he accompanied a small team of Word Forest volunteers to Boré, Coast Province, Kenya. His remit was to tell the story of why we need to plant more trees in the tropics and why we need to support the people who are taking care of the forests. “If we don’t address both of these urgent requirements, we’ll find ourselves at existential o’clock”, says Word Forest CEO, Tracey West.

Tim captured remarkable stories from the tree planters of Boré, including charting the success of the 40 Mothers of the Forest, with group facilitator, Eva Jefa. “I hope by sharing our model for positive change through environmental education, we’ll be able to encourage others to adopt it too,” says, Eva.

Simon West, Chair of Trustees, adds: “Understanding sustainability via #permaculture, for example, allows the community to better resist climate chaos. We’re trying to fill the gaps left by governments and undo the damage done by big corporations.”

Over the past 2 years, the Mothers have addressed social isolation and depression amongst the women in their community by building a framework of sisterly support and resilience. Eva continues: “Women do the majority of the tree planting here. We come together to share knowledge on the best ways to take care of the forest; the planet benefits and we benefit too.”

#TreesAreTheKey #documentary #film #tree-planting #trees #forests #food #food-growing #protection #preservation #conservation #resilience #Kenya #MothersOfTheForest #TimTysonShort #TheWordForestOrganisation #docu-films

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3qMIFQLK8c

Building Indigenous Food Sovereignty with the Hua Parakore Organic Framework

Hua Parakore was established in Aotearoa New Zealand by Te Waka Kai Ora, the National Māori Organics Authority. It provides a framework using Indigenous values – Māori principles – for producing natural food without chemical inputs or GMO.

It also encapsulates the Māori worldview in its approach to how food growers are verified as Hua Parakore, with principles that require practitioners to deeply consider such things as their connection with the land, its energy, the many species living on it, and their community.

This documentary provides an insight into Hua Parakore from the perspective of one of its most knowledgeable practitioners – Jessica Hutchings was one of the researchers who helped develop the framework.

Te Waka Kai Ora https://www.tewakakaiora.co.nz/

#food #food-growing #food-sovereignty #organic #indigenous #values #principles #HuaParakore #TeWakaKaiOra #Māori #NationalMāoriOrganicsAuthority #NewZealand #JessicaHutchings #happenfilms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtBGQUSj37s

Together We Grow

Together We Grow (2022) is a 40-minute documentary telling the story of Common Unity Project Aotearoa.

Introducing a thriving hub helping to build resilience into its local community by #growing, #sewing, #repairing, #sharing – you name it, Common Unity is doing it!

Too many of our communities, here and around the world, are facing #housing-crises, food-insecurity, social-isolation, and more. In addition, the multiple impacts of the Covid pandemic and #climate-change are current and ongoing. How can we most effectively confront these challenges, and help our communities thrive in an economic system that leaves many feeling trapped in poverty?

Founder Julia Milne and her team have created a completely replicable model for developing strong, connected, resilient communities – a model that could be put in place across thousands of communities in Aotearoa and millions of communities across the world. They’ve proven it can be done, this film was made to help them share the story!

#TogetherWeGrow #documentary #film #local #community #thriving #hub #food-growing #resilience #resilient-communities #JuliaMilne #HappenFilms #docu-films

Seed saving and sharing key to a grassroots food revolution

https://www.shareable.net/seed-saving-and-sharing-key-to-a-grassroots-food-revolution/

Being a seed saver and sharer is an investment in future generations. All you have to do is cultivate, save, and share organic seeds adapted to where you live. You’ll help create change by contributing to a food system that’s more democratic, diverse, and sustainable.

#seeds #seed-saving #seed-sharing #seed-sovereignty #organic #food-growing #grassroots #food #revolution #shareable

Seed saving and sharing key to a grassroots food revolution

Do you want to build a more resilient, sustainable food system free from corporate ownership while protecting your local ecosystem? Then join the global

How Regenerative Agriculture Can Impact Soil Erosion

https://biomimicry.org/how-regenerative-agriculture-can-impact-soil-erosion/

The word “regeneration” has been somewhat of a buzzword in the environmental movement. But what does it really mean? To us, it means renewal and restoration within the limits of existing ecosystems. Regeneration can have positive implications for the agricultural industry, which is in desperate need of an overhaul, one that will center on soil health.

“Regenerative agricultural practices can be a means of reducing soil loss, building soil structure, and limiting the number of chemicals in soils. They advocate for a return to practices akin to Indigenous peoples’ ways of farming that preserve local ecosystems and maintain balance.”

#food #food-growing #regenerative-agriculture #regeneration #environment #biomimicryinstitute

‘It could feed the world’: amaranth, a health trend 8,000 years old that survived colonization

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/06/ancient-grain-amaranth-food-trend-indigenous

Since the 1970s, amaranth has become a billion-dollar food – and cosmetic – product. Health conscious shoppers embracing ancient grains will find it in growing numbers of grocery stores in the US, or in snack bars across Mexico, and, increasingly, in Europe and the Asia Pacific. As a complete protein with all nine essential amino acids, amaranth is a highly nutritious source of manganese, magnesium, phosphorus, iron and antioxidants that may improve brain function and reduce inflammation.

#food #health #food-growing #amaranth

How Ancient Forest Gardens Are Keeping Hunger At Bay

https://newint.org/immersive/2021/01/06/sheltering-fjf-forest

Agroforesty has been passed down like this from generation to generation in Gedeo since Neolithic times, making it one of the oldest farming systems in the world. The system endures in an area with the highest rural population density in Ethiopia (1,300 people per kilometre squared), without degrading the land, while sustaining great diversity. A study from Gedeo’s Kochore district found 165 plant species within and around home gardens.

#food #food-growing #food-growers #forest-gardens #agroforestry #agroforesty #Gedeo #Ethiopia #newinternationalist

How ancient forest gardens keep hunger at bay

Tesfa-Alem Tekle travels to meet the Ethiopian farmers whose unique agroforestry system has kept hunger at bay for millennia.

Support Om Sleiman farm CSA in Palestine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKZ2RlyHnJw

We at Om Sleiman Farm have been running a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farm in the West Bank in Palestine for the past 5 years. Our work has been an important connection that ties us to our land, and a dreaming space that aspires to showcase our vision of a sustainable and independent future in Palestine.

Om Sleiman Farm was born in 2016 as an effort to re-imagine resistance as a community effort rooted in the intersection of the social, economic, and environmental. We have operated since our inception as a CSA, mobilizing community resources to support farmers on the ground. We sought a popular education model to provide a space for teaching and learning about sustainable practices in farming and building. The farm is based in Bil’in and carries the village’s long tradition of popular resistance, and seeks to continuously embody that tradition in what it does.

ولدت مزرعة أم سليمان في مطلع عام 2016 في قرية بلعين في الضفة الغربية كجهد جماعي يعمل على إعادة تخيل العمل الشعبي المقاوم كعمل قادر على التعامل مع التحديات المجتمعية والإقتصادية والبيئية في آن واحد. أنتج هذا العمل مزرعة تعمل بنظام المزرعة المدعومة مجتمعيا استمرت في العمل رغم كل التحديات على مدار الخمس أعوام الماضية. كان عملنا في المزرعة - وما زال - بمثابة تحدي مستمر لخلق مساحة للحلم الجماعي بمستقبل أفضل في بلادنا، والتجرؤ على المحاولة لتحقيقه على الأرض.

تسلحنا منذ بداية عملنا بأدوات فعالة، حيث نعمل كمزرعة مدعومة مجتمعيا على تحريك الموارد المجتمعية والمالية لدعم المزارعين على الأرض. العمل المجتمعي لم يكتمل بدون توفير مساحة للتعلم الشعبي المتكامل مع العمل والقائم على رؤيتنا الهادفة لاستعادة التوازن والاستدامة خاصة في الأعمال الزراعية والبناء. كون قرية بلعين الحاضنة المحلية لعملنا جعل هذا العمل امتداد طبيعي للمقاومة الشعبية وامتداد لثقافة عريقة امتدت عبر الأجيال.

Detailed information: https://www.gofundme.com/f/omsleimanfarm-5years

#food #food-growing #OmSleimanFarm #community-supported-agriculture #CSA #homesteading #skills #natural-building #Palestine #YaraDowani #MuhabAlami #MohammedAbujayyab

COVID-19 Sparks a Rebirth of the Local Farm Movement

https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2020/05/21/coronavirus-food-local-farm-movement/

#food #food-growing #food-growers #food-gardening #food-communities #community-supported-agriculture #local #organic #farm #movement #yesmagazine

COVID-19 Sparks a Rebirth of the Local Farm Movement

Could this be the beginning of a new food economy?

Dr. Ann Lopez On Farmworker Rights And Immigration

https://ksqd.org/dr-ann-lopez-on-farmworker-rights-and-immigration/

In this interview, Dr. Ann Lopez of the Center for Farmworker Families discusses a proposed bill that would grant some rights to undocumented farmworkers while leaving them open to deportation if they cannot comply with some very stringent conditions. Dr. Lopez says this will make the poverty and fear among this vulnerable population worse.

#food #food-growing #food-growers #farmworker #rights #foodbank #undergroundfoodbank #AnnLopez #CenterForFarmworkerFamilies

Dr. Ann Lopez on Farmworker Rights and Immigration

In this interview, Dr. Ann Lopez of the Center for Farmworker Families discusses a proposed bill that would grant some rights to undocumented farmworkers while leaving them open to deportation if they cannot comply with some very stringent...

Radical Realism for Climate Justice: From Industrial Agriculture to Peasant Agroecology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBnQurZDivo

Limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial is feasible, and it is our best hope of achieving environmental and social justice, of containing the impacts of a global crisis that was born out of historical injustice and highly unequal responsibility.
To do so will require a radical shift away from resource-intensive and wasteful production and consumption patterns and a deep transformation towards ecological sustainability and social justice. Demanding this transformation is not ‘naïve’ or ‘politically unfeasible’, it is radically realistic.

In this part of the Radical Realism video series, La Via Campesina and Heinrich Boell Foundation explore the need for reclaiming a food system based on food sovereignty, small-scale farming and peasant agroecology.

Based on the chapter "La Via Campesina in Action for Climate Justice“ in the Radical Realism publication: https://www.boell.de/en/radicalrealism

#climate #food #food-growing #small-scale #farming #peasant #agroecology #food-sovereignty #HeinrichBoellFoundation #LaViaCampesina

A forgotten classic of agroecological science

https://theecologist.org/2021/jan/12/forgotten-classic-agroecological-science

The agro-chemical industry definitely does not want a new agricultural revolution. And perhaps society at large, at least in western World, has been encouraged to agree. After all, revolutions are equated with uncertainty, and uncertainty can be scary for those enjoying relative comfort.

But at this moment in history, with chemically intensive agriculture wreaking havoc on life-giving soils, polluting land, water and our shared atmosphere, plunging farmers into crippling debt, we cannot afford to take half measures or hope for silver bullet solutions to arrive unbidden where they have failed before.

#food #food-growing #agroecology #HealthyCrops #FrancisChabboussou #TheEcologist

A forgotten classic of agroecological science

Francis Chabboussou's Healthy Crops is a forgotten classic of organic science, with wide-reaching implications for global agriculture.

Gates Foundation doubles down on misinformation campaign at Cornell as African leaders call for agroecology

https://usrtk.org/our-investigations/gates-foundation-doubles-down-on-misinformation-campaign-at-cornell-as-african-leaders-call-for-agroecology/

The PR investment comes at a time when the Gates Foundation is under fire for spending billions of dollars on agricultural development schemes in Africa that critics say are entrenching farming methods that benefit corporations over people.

Bill Gates’s Foundation Is Leading a Green Counterrevolution in Africa

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/12/agribusiness-gates-foundation-green-revolution-africa-agra#

AGRA was established in 2006 by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. Deploying high-yield commercial seeds, synthetic fertilizers, and pesticides as its main weapons, the program is meant to help Africa unleash its own Green Revolution in agriculture to fight hunger and poverty. At least, that’s the promise.

#food #food-growing #agroecology #Africa #AGRA #AllianceForAGreenRevolutionInAfrica
#BillAndMelindaGatesFoundation #BillGates #JacobinMagazine #USRTK

Gates Foundation doubles down on misinformation campaign at Cornell as African leaders call for agroecology  - U.S. Right to Know

Faith leaders, farmers, food sovereignty groups call on Gates Foundation to stop pushing failed ag development strategies in Africa.

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/sustenance

Sustenance

Sustenance is a feature-length documentary about food’s journey around the world, exploring controversies revolving around food and its interconnectedness with justice, climate change, and sustainability.

Breaking bread during a reunion, a group of friends become curious about the sustainability of their eating regiments. They instigate a challenge and send the filmmaker on a quest to investigate the credibility and ethicality of their eating ideologies. The friends come from different backgrounds and live in Toronto, Canada; a multicultural megalopolis. What follows takes the filmmaker on a global odyssey, far beyond the borders of Canada. As she digs deeper she realizes the inconvenient truths not only about the environmental catastrophes caused by our dependence on mainstream food production methods, but also by the cataclysmic social justice impact of our eating habits in the global south.

During her quest for Sustenance the filmmaker comes vis-à-vis the inevitability of our reliance on animal-source foods if we want to tackle the sustainability problem and live harmoniously with the other sojourners of our planet. She meets some of the most renowned contemporary food activists that elucidate this critical concept and provide their solutions; figures such as Lierre Keith, Allan Savory, Joel Salatin, Nora Gedgaudas, and Derrick Jensen.

The documentary unfolds many popular myths on topics such as plant-based diets, healthy and nutritional foods, ethical eating, food politics, industrial agriculture, and how to attain a sustainable lifestyle. Sustenance focuses on an outspoken socio-political approach to discovering where our food really comes from and how it genuinely affects the health of other people, other species, and ultimately our planet. While the documentary’s content focuses on an informative yet shocking look at the history of food politics, the meditative cinematic journey around the world allows spectators to reconnect with nature and Earth’s sustenance.

#Sustenance #documentary #film #nature #food #food-growing #food-growers #organic #organics #sustainableliving #sustainablelife #regenerativeagriculture #regenerativefarming #holistic-management #permaculture #sustainability #resilience #regeneration #waterislife #naturelover #interconnectedness #LierreKeith #JoelSalatin #NoraGedgaudas #AllanSavory #DerrickJensen #YasiGerami #SustenanceDocumentary #BluearthFilms #CounterMedia #docu-films

https://vimeo.com/146953911

Life in Syntropy

"Vida em Sintropia" é o novo curta do Agenda Gotsch. Uma edição feita especialmente para ser apresentada em eventos na COP21 em Paris, com um compilado de experiências expressivas em Agricultura Sintrópica. Imagens e entrevistas inéditas.

"Life in Syntropy" is the new short film from Agenda Gotsch made specially to be presented at #COP21 - Paris. This film put together some of the most remarkable experiences in Syntropic Agriculture, with brand new images and interviews.

#syntropy #syntropic #short #film #documentary #food #food-growing #gardening #agriculture #permaculture #agroforestry #AgendaGotsch