SEKEM: Aus der Kraft der Sonne [SEKEM: Born of the Sun]
The film discusses how biodynamic agricultural methods transformed an area of desert 60 kilometers northeast of Cairo, and a leading agro-industrial corporation was founded.
The film discusses how biodynamic agricultural methods transformed an area of desert 60 kilometers northeast of Cairo, and a leading agro-industrial corporation was founded.
This film profiles the work of Eckart Irion, German researcher and cultivator of new types of grain. He uses natural selection to develop his own seeds for growing rye, wheat, and oats.
A portrait of Michael Simml, a pioneering organic farmer based in the Bavarian Forest, and his methods of yielding the highest returns from the most challenging of soils.
A political thriller about GMOs and freedom of speech.
This exploration of the deepening crisis of food security in India looks at four case studies, dealing respectively with Punjab, Warangal, Kalahandi, and Bellary. These are interspersed by insights into a movement in the Himalayas that may offer alternatives in the form of sustainable agricultural systems, which revive traditional agricultural practices (Beej Bachao Andolan).
Late medieval efforts at river management to control floods in the county of Roussillon reveal environmental awareness and responsibility in an emerging state and also the grounds and strength of local resistance.
The arrival in 2010 of a major international public art exhibition in the heart of the Emscher valley marked a new chapter in the regeneration of an area, where infrastructure, environmental, and art history continue to become entangled in new and fascinating ways.
Burning cultivation of peatlands was by far the greatest source of carbon dioxide in Finland during the whole of nineteenth century and at the beginning of the twentieth century.
“Cooperating with nature, instead of fighting nature. To observe nature and ascertain which plants support one another.” These are key concepts for organic farmer Sepp Holzer and the founding principles of permaculture.
Under the European colonial powers, agricultural methods and techniques, along with well-organized routines in sugar production, were developed on the Caribbean islands with a view to managing sugar plantations as efficiently as possible. The results were in many cases deforestation, impoverished soils, and erosion.