The Dignity of Farmers - Food Security versus Farming Wind
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Channel: Friends of Science · 2018 · Science & Technology
Award-winning Dutch filmmaker Marijn Poels worked in poverty and conflict countries for nine years, seeing and experiencing first hand the consequences of food insecurity - hunger. So he was alarmed to find that back in the EU, farmers were being driven out of food production by market price manipulations and ever more burdensome regulations...and tempted into 'farming energy' with promises of big money through hosting wind turbines, solar panels and biogas installations. Though farm wind/solar/biogas subsidy policies vary between nations, Poels was critical of the monoculture degradation of land for biogas; the crippling loan burdens for wind/solar that put many farmers out of business; the government lack of attention to the loss of local food security and the crisis of farmer suicides as they lost their centuries-old family farms to debt and land degradation. See the full film THE UNCERTAINTY HAS SETTLED on Vimeo for a nominal rental fee: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/theuncertaintyhassettled
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