Bitter seeds

Título
Bitter seeds

Resumen
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.

Fecha de publicación como intervalo
2011

Globalization Trilogy #3

Descripción física
1 videodisc (88 min.); sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Término de la materia
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.

Término geográfico
India.

Autor añadido
Fifer, Sally Jo.
 
Peled, Micha X.

Autor corporativo añadido
Teddy Bear Films.

Síntesis
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

Información de publicación
San Francisco, California Teddy Bear Films 2011


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