Food Globalization: The Truth Behind Cheap Food | Investigative Documentary from 2013


Who’s paying the real price for the cheap food in our supermarkets? We investigate the conditions under which three staples – bananas, vegetables and fish – are produced. In Italy, illegal workers from sub-Saharan Africa live in appalling conditions, working long hours under the control of omnipotent ‘caporalatos’. In Cameroon, the banana industry stands accused of appropriating land, polluting the environment and bribing local politicians. Meanwhile in Guinea, fish stocks are plundered by foreign fleets. The African workers on these ships are often exploited and abused.

⁣Mhenga Thomas Sankara Documentary

The San people are believed to be among the first humans to inhabit the southern Africa region. After entering modern times, the San people in Botswana were deprived of their land and hunting rights. To compound all these, alcoholism and violence spread among the San sub-tribes, as cultural rites and traditions are gradually disappear.

The San people are believed to be among the first humans to inhabit the southern Africa region. After entering modern times, the San people in Botswana were deprived of their land and hunting rights. To compound all these, alcoholism and violence spread among the San sub-tribes, as cultural rites and traditions are gradually disappear.

The dying days of the Republic of Rhodesia in Southern Africa. Filmed by Thames Televisions flagship factual programme 'This week'First transmitted on 11/01/1979 ,

Made by leading Ugandan documentarist Nathan Ochole, this film explains what agroforestry is and the myriad of contributions that it has made to Uganda. It starts in the highlands of Kabale, where trees on farms prevented landslides and floods, provided fruit to villagers and made their agriculture more sustainable. It then roams to the parklands of northern Uganda where Borassus palms and Shea trees provide valuable nutrition and cash earnings (particularly for women in the case of Shea) and improve the yields of the crops grown near them. It visits Kapchorwa where we see the use of the nitrogen-fixing shrub Calliandra as feed for dairy cows and then documents the improvements that orange trees have made to livelihoods in Namatumba.

Along the way, the film interviews farmers as well as Dr Clement Okia, the representative of the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) in Uganda, and Dr Hilary Agaba, Programme Leader Agroforestry at Uganda’s National Forestry Resources Research Institute (NaFORRI NARO). It was produced by Cathy Watson, formerly of Tree Talk and Muvle Trust in Uganda and now Head of Programme Development at ICRAF, and by Australian AVID volunteer, Laura Keenan.

Who are the Fulani today? AFP followed these semi-nomadic people for several weeks and in several countries in the African continent. An excerpt here from AFP's work in Mali.

A corner of the Amazon that had been cleared and used as farmland has been restored to rainforest.Subscribe - https://www.youtube.com/bbcworldserviceThe man who owns it, Omar Tello, gave up his job as an accountant and spent 40 years recreating a patch of pristine forest in Ecuador, stretching just a few hundred metres in each direction.He’s trying to encourage other landowners to do the same, so they can turn the tide of deforestation.

Geoff Lawton briefly describes Permaculture systems and yield.

Roforofo Fight (LP) (1972) Fela Kuti
Songs include Roforofo Fight / Question Jam Answer / Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am / Go Slow
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This video is part of a series of songs being posted on Fela's official YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/fela) each featuring, alongside the music, an informative commentary by Afrobeat Historian, Chris May.

The entire catalogue, released on Kntting Factory Records, is available on the Fela website (http://fela.net/), along with documentaries and recorded concerts, CDs and vinyl, tee shirts, posters and many other items.