Janovicek’s article studies the back-to-the-land movement of the 1960s and 1970s. By learning, preserving, and sharing traditional agricultural skills and knowledge, back-to-the-landers contributed to the revitalization of local food economies. The links they made connected them to others in their communities and to other generations of activists.
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Cormac McCarthy, The Road portrays a father and son struggling to survive in a post-apocalytic world turned savage.
This short film follows a spoiled tomato as it moves through the Brazilian food chain.
This film follows the founder of a grassroots chocolate cooperative in Grenada. It reveals the benefits of a cooperative model in an industry marred by corporate greed, trafficking, and slavery.
This film follows an Indian farmer whose situation becomes a microcosm of the conflict between Monsanto and rural people living in poverty in India.
This film questions the sustainability of the four billion dollar global sushi industry, which has put the Blue Fin Tuna at risk of extinction.
This film follows the old farming community of Périgord, a region in southwest France, as it tries to navigate its future in the modern world.
This film examines the environmental impact and uses of hemp, from nutrition to construction.
This article, “Artificial Apple Production in Fraiburgo, Brazil, 1958–1989,” by Jó Klanovicz explores connections between the “domestication” of apples in Southern Brazil, the polemic on contaminated apples in 1989, and the reactions of the apple industry to the news published in the press on the use of pesticides in Brazilian orchards.
Jungleburgers is a documentary about the rainforest in Costa Rica being destroyed for the sake of low-cost beef for the US hamburger market.
