Please watch this inspiring video of Dr. Debal Deb, an ecologist who is conserving 720 varieties of rice single handedly in West Bengal and now in Odisha. Please click on the link below to see Debal’s interview which summarises his pathbreaking work in the conservation field. Else cut and paste this link on your browser [...]

Documentary on Vidarbha farmers bags National award-TIMES OF INDIA Watch it on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdlPD8Eccrw NAGPUR: “If a quarter million farmers kill themselves over a span of 16 years, then it is genocide and not suicide. The globalization of economies has given rise to a new form of agrarian warfare where seeds are the new weapons.” This [...]

Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycpcnOgn1KY&feature=relmfu Part 1 contd http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FoQ5fdkSMc&feature=related Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMdt7RMvMHY&feature=relmfu Part 2 contd http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPOkZUm8jbE&feature=related Part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rooGvDSIPhc&feature=related Part 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_fj-ck2YYA&feature=related Part 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfWeGmeNLng&feature=related Part 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOnxyKCAdik&feature=related Part 7 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yen9K55f1_o&feature=related Part 8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaRxXb6hupU&feature=related Part 9 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN5d8sJRJhg&feature=related Part 10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN5d8sJRJhg&feature=related

Documentary on Vidarbha Agrarian Crisis ‘Cotton for my shroud’ won Gold at the IDPA Awards-2011 and Nominated for the Vatavaran Environment and Wildlife Film Festival-2011 Nagpur -26th October 2011 The story of the cotton farmers suicides of Vidarbha produced as documentary film ‘Cotton for my shroud’ by Top Quark Films and directed by Nandan Saxena [...]

Mother Earth – New future for small farmers (December 2008) Mother Earth is a very inspiring documentary by the Dutch filmmakers Paul Enkelaar and Jan Paul Smit. Central theme of this documentary is the development of small-scale organic agriculture in Andhra Pradesh, one of the poorest regions in the south of India. It is a [...]

The war on weeds Increasing rice production in Africa http://www.researchforglobaldevelopment.nl/the-war-on-weeds/ In his search for a solution to the problem of weeds that limit African rice production, Jonne Rodenburg works at many levels, from genetic research to production systems. One of his findings is that farmers’ practices and considerations must be included in crop and weed [...]

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Very interesting documentary regarding agrarian history of the world