Bitter seeds

Title
Bitter seeds

Summary
Every 30 minutes a farmer in India kills himself in despair. How is it that a hardworking farmer and father arives at a point in life where the most sensible course of action is to kill himself by drinking a bottle of pesticide? It all makes horrible sense once you understand the forces at work: the tragic intersection of a high-tech industrial agriculture, the global economy and a traditional culture. Micha Peleds vivid, rich and deep new documentary Bitter Seeds takes us to an Indian village at the center of the suicide crisis region. It follows over a season a cotton farmer and his family as they struggle to keep their land, and a teenage girl making her first steps to become a journalist and tell the world about the crisis. Bitter Seeds raises critical questions about the human cost of genetically modified agriculture and the future of how we grow things.

Year Published
2011

Series
Globalization Trilogy #3

Physical Description
1 videodisc (88 min.); sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Subject
Poverty -- India.
 
Genetically modified foods.
 
Farmers. -- Globalization
 
Economic aspects. -- Seeds -- India
 
Development.
 
Cotton growing -- Economic aspects -- India.
 
Human rights and globalization -- India.
 
Cotton farmers -- India.
 
Cotton growing -- India.
 
Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- India.

Geographic Term
India.

Added Author
Fifer, Sally Jo.
 
Peled, Micha X.

Added Corporate Author
Teddy Bear Films.

Summary
Every 30 minutes a farmer in India kills himself in despair. How is it that a hardworking farmer and father arives at a point in life where the most sensible course of action is to kill himself by drinking a bottle of pesticide? It all makes horrible sense once you understand the forces at work: the tragic intersection of a high-tech industrial agriculture, the global economy and a traditional culture. Micha Peleds vivid, rich and deep new documentary Bitter Seeds takes us to an Indian village at the center of the suicide crisis region. It follows over a season a cotton farmer and his family as they struggle to keep their land, and a teenage girl making her first steps to become a journalist and tell the world about the crisis. Bitter Seeds raises critical questions about the human cost of genetically modified agriculture and the future of how we grow things.

ISBN
9781937772116

Publisher
San Francisco, California Teddy Bear Films 2011


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