Global Research Institute
Film Screening: "The Earth's Essence", Philippe Goyvaertz
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- Open to the public
The Essence of the Earth - The Mayans and Agrofuels (France, 2010, L'essence de la terre, 90 minutes.)
Written and Directed by Philippe Goyvaertz
The film shows the social and environmental consequences of the development of agrofuels in Guatemala. A recruiter takes us to small villages where small farmers, driven by hunger and the deterioration of their land, must go to work on the country's large plantations. In Petén, Mayan peasants, driven from their land by the greed of multinationals, testify to the violent methods often used. But resistance is being organized and some Mayan communities are developing another economic model, local and collective, with the cultivation of jatropha.
With explanations from Jean Ziegler.
Sponsored by: Anthropology / Film & Media Studies Program
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