Professor Adrian Saville Gordon from the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) and the Centre for African Management and Markets (CAAM), teams up with The Founder of The Nielsen Network, Bronwyn Nielsen to bring you "Africa Rising". A monthly mini documentary that highlights the enormous opportunity that the African Continental Free Trade Area presents if fully embraced and effectively leveraged. AfCTFA went live on the 1st of January 2021 and aims to unify 55 AU states, connect 1.2 billion people and create the largest free trade area in the world with a combined GDP of 3.4 trillion US dollars . The team will showcase trade, infrastructure, education and health projects, conduct interviews with public and private sector leaders, academia and civil society. We start in The Republic of Ghana home to the AfCFTA Secretariat. #africa #AfCFTA

⁣Mhenga Thomas Sankara Documentary

During colonial times, many Africans were traded for slavery in the Americas. When Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery, many started searching for their roots. For years, Rastafarians from Jamaica have gone to live in Shashemene Ethiopia, a land that the late Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia gave to them. Today, many are happy to be home.

Aduna is helping to grow The Great Green Wall: a ground-breaking initiative led by the African Union to build and preserve an 8,000km wall of trees across the African Sahel. The Sahel, where Aduna’s baobab fruit supply chain is based, is one of the world’s poorest regions. People rely on the land to survive but climate change is causing desertification, making it impossible for communities to grow crops and earn a living. Learn how we, together with our local partners ORGIIS, have transformed baobab from an under-utilised resource to a lifeline for local communities. And discover the crucial role Baobab has to play in The Great Green Wall - creating sustainable livelihoods, reversing the effects of climate change and providing communities with a reason to stay. Find out more at https://aduna.com or https://www.greatgreenwall.org. #greatgreenwall #baobab #makebaobabfamous #aduna
Film and edited by James Ward: http://www.jameswardfilms.com
Music by Osei Kwame Korankye: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMhyohZ-6cY

A majestic journey through Japan, Korea, and the United States that turns our perceptions of food (and life) upside down in a simple and poetic way. Solutions for our most pressing social and ecological issues come from unexpected places in a bite-sized film that New York Times bestselling author Alicia Bay Laurel calls “beautiful … both art and documentary.”Inspired by the work and philosophy of Masanobu Fukuoka, artist Patrick M. Lydon (USA) and editor Suhee Kang (South Korea) spend four years meeting and studying with multiple generations of modern day natural farmers. The result is a film that weaves breathtaking landscapes and an eclectic original soundtrack together with stories and insights from an inspiring cast of natural farmers, chefs, and teachers. The film gives modern-day relevance to age-old ideas about more sustainable, regenerative, and harmonious ways of living with the earth.Current-day leaders in the natural farming movement featured in the film include Yoshikazu Kawaguchi (Japan), Seonghyun Choi (Korea), Larry Korn (United States), and a dozen others. Their stories illuminate a brilliant-yet-maddeningly-simple path to sustainability and well being, one popularized by the late Masanobu Fukuoka, author of the seminal environmental text “One Straw Revolution.”Far-reaching in its application, “Food, Earth, Happiness” offers philosophical seeds to grow solutions for social and environmental justice.–Note: Officially released on January 1, 2019, this film is an abbreviated version of the acclaimed environmental documentary Final Straw: Food, Earth, Happiness (74 min / 2015). It has been edited by the directors for public and classroom use.–CREDITS– directed, filmed, and produced by – Patrick M. Lydon and Suhee Kang– produced by – SocieCity Films City as Nature– associate producer – Kaori Tsuji– production assistant & animation – Heeyoung Park– characters – Yoshikazu KawaguchiLarry KornKristyn LeachSeong Hyun ChoiEtsko KagamiyamaRyosok HongMaki SobajimaKenji MurakamiYoshiki YamamotoOsamu KitaKazuaki OkitsuDennis Lee– musicians – BomnoonbyulWindSync: Anni Hochhalter, horn; Garrett Hudson, flute; Tracy Jacobson, bassoon; Jack Marquardt, clarinet; Erin Tsai, oboeIpppen: Youji Kohno and Ben NakamuraJoyful Island– interview coordination and interpretation – Eri and Kazu DomaeIkumasa HayashiEri MizushimaIsao SuizuNaho TakeuchiHyunwoo Kim– translation – Masumi AbeSonny KimMalga KimNatsuki Yamada-KitadeKyoko KodaHyunwoo KimDaisuke MatsumotoAkiko MisasaEri Mizushima-PetersonUni ParkShumeiKaori Tsuji– explore more – http://www.finalstraw.org“Food, Earth, Happiness” was filmed entirely on location in Japan, South Korea, and the United States between 2011 – 2015 by directors Patrick M. Lydon and Suhee Kang.

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.

Haiti Reforestation Partnership is celebrating 30 years of reforestation success.

To learn more, please visit www.haitireforest.org

Geoff Lawton briefly describes Permaculture systems and yield.

From the CD: Black Ivory Soul

"Open your eyes, ears and hearts and surrender to the sights and sounds of Africa."

Great song from a great African woman, set to the pictures of a great African civilization - The people of the Surma and Mursi tribes.

Tribal Decoration of the Omo Valley - Pictures by: Hans Silvester (Africa on Lens)

The people of the Surma and Mursi tribes live in the Omo Valley of Southern Ethiopia are body painters: they paint their bodies with pigments made from the earth as an immemorial and quotidian practice mothers paint babies, children and adults paint themselves and each other in a tradition that seems unchanged for thousands of years. Their paintings range from abstract designs of circles, lines, dots and swirls, sometimes focused on specific body parts, to all-over patterns of flowers, zig-zags and fingerprints that form a dazzling array on the entire body. White, yellow, orange and ochre; the natural pigments that they use are derived from the soil and rocks of their surroundings. The tribes daily paintings are an essential expression of their lives more elemental to them than music or dance. Fascinated by the Surma and Mursi tribes painting practices and astounded by the beauty of their ephemeral art.

Silvester captures the diverse and extraordinary effects that they achieve through their ancient tradition.

Source Malborough Gallery

Four farmers from the Eastern Region in Ghana share their experiences on fruit fly control: 1) How to build a fruit fly trap for monitoring. 2) How to install it in the tree. 3) How to use a protein bait to control fruit flies. 4) The role of farm hygiene in fruit fly management.

This is a participatory film. Farmers wrote the script and decided on the messages to share with their colleagues.