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This short film highlights the important role of food forests in laying a path to food sovereignty for Indigenous communities. Filmed on location in Treaty 6 territory on the ancestral lands of Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation, Muskeg Lake Cree Nation, and Beardy’s & Okemasis’ Cree Nation by Anaquod Videography in collaboration with Canadian Feed The Children. We are deeply grateful to these communities for their participation and leadership.
Many praised it for attacking the environmental impact of fishing head on, qualifying it as the absolute “must watch”. Meanwhile, others criticised it just as vehemently, and labelled it a piece of propaganda against the fishing industry and accused it of taking statistics out of context to promote veganism.
Prof Sami Kara from the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, UNSW, breaks down some of the key challenges behind the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 12. SDG12 aims to “Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns”. This video was produced by the EDDS Team of the Pro Vice-Chancellor Education portfolio in collaboration with UNSW Sustainability.
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SEMBRADORAS DE VIDA accompanies five women from the Peruvian Andes in their daily struggle to maintain a traditional and organic way of working the land. In the Andean cosmovision, women and the earth are strongly interrelated. Both the woman’s body and the land are capable of giving life. In the current context of the industrialisation of agriculture, the use of chemical pesticides and genetically modified seeds, it is women who, connected to the earth in sisterhood, assume the role of protectors.
Cacao, a global commodity, assumes a pivotal role in discussions of food. This short film examines the nexus of food sovereignty, self-determination, and disease among Panama’s Indigenous Ngöbe communities, who play a central role in the cacao trade.
The film “The Unspoken Revolution” depicts a Palestinian agricultural movement towards food sovereignty, aiming to break free from dependence on the occupier and global corporations. It showcases stories of farmers and activists adopting sustainable practices, addressing key issues like youth unemployment and land degradation. The film emphasizes the importance of holistic, natural, and local food production, while highlighting often overlooked spiritual, social, and national dimensions.
What if one simple change could save you from chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease? Take a deep dive into the plant-based diet documentary that has influenced millions around the world. Forks Over Knives examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the chronic diseases that afflict us can be controlled or even reversed by rejecting animal-based and processed foods.
Alcarràs captures this rural world and its heritage with a gripping sense of nostalgia for things forever gone.
