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0:05: We are approaching a redwood tree. To animate a scientifically accurate leaf, artists studied the texture of a redwood leaf specimen on a glass slide at high resolution. They even counted the stomata, and used that exact count for this film!

0:25: These leaves would be measured on a centimeter scale. Throughout the animation, we will gradually zoom in to smaller scales.

0:40: As we approach a single stoma, we are now on a millimeter scale.

0:48: As we enter the interior of the leaf, we see many individual palisade cells. These cells are where photosynthesis takes place; they are translucent to allow sunlight to enter.

1:00: As we approach a single palisade cell, we’ll zoom down to the micrometer scale. The shapes inside the cell are organelles: the bright globules at the bottom are the Golgi apparatus; the yellow spotted tubes are endoplasmic reticulum studded with ribosomes.

1:09: That large, blue membrane surrounds the nucleus; the purple blobs are mitochondria.

1:18: The faint, yellow, spider-web structure of the cytoskeleton provides structure and support to the cell.

1:24: You are about to enter a chloroplast; inside you see flat, pancake-like membranous structures called thylakoids. This is where the light-dependent reactions of photosynthesis take place to produce ATP, the cell’s energy carrier molecule. way


1:38: The time scale has changed: the molecules are shown moving 1 million times slower than in real life!

1:42: As we near an individual thylakoid, the animation scale continues to shrink down to the molecular level, where things are measured in nanometers.


1:52: The green and blue bush-like structures are photosystems: clusters of proteins that absorb light energy from the sun and help convert it into the chemical energy that’s stored in the bonds of the energy carrier molecule called ATP.

2:03: The yellow-green, rotating structure is an enzyme called ATP synthase. This molecular machine facilitates the flow of protons down their concentration gradient from one side of the thylakoid membrane to the other, using the energy released in the process to assemble ATP.

2:16: The pulses of light in the thylakoid membrane in which the photosystems are embedded represent energized electrons being passed from one photosystem to another, passing along the energy which will be stored in the bonds of ATP (the classic “bucket brigade”).

2:26: The small “wigglies” are ATP molecules. Living things store energy in the bonds of the ATP molecules and then use that energy to conduct all the processes of life.

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Organic farmers in Kenya shared their experiences with drought, and the benefits organic farming provides for them to build healthy soils and continue producing food.

“#IGrowYourFood” is a part of GoodFood4All” campaign.

There are many things that connect people the world over. Food is one of them. We all have to eat. And, everyone has the right to access affordable, nutritious, good food.

But what about those who grow our food?

Do we know enough about the challenges they face, the work they do and how we can support them?

Then, without farmers, how would we eat?

The “#GoodFood4All” campaign is organized by 25 partners across Europe who have come together in "Make Europe Sustainable for All", a 3-year cross-sectoral project to promote the ambitious implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.

🎞 Also, check other videos from organic farmers diligently participated to share their own stories from the field:

#IGrowYourFood - Meet Gnavo Josephine, a pineapple farmer from Togo 🇹🇬
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#IGrowYourFood - Meet David Avelar from Portugal & hear what he has to say about Permaculture 🇵🇹
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#IGrowYourFood - Meet Simon Mattsson from Australia 🇦🇺
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#IGrowYourFood - Meet Yorgos Xepapadakos, an organic farmer from Greece 🇬🇷
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#IGrowYourFood - Meet Franciszek Kesler, an organic farmer from Poland 🇵🇱
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#IGrowYourFood - Meet Juan Carlos Mendoza Gonzalez, an organic farmer from El Salvador 🇸🇻
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#IGrowYourFood - Meet Aurore Juillet, an organic market gardener from France 🇫🇷
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#IGrowYourFood - Meet Penny Lange, an organic farmer from Ireland 🇮🇪
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#IGrowYourFood - Meet Giacomo Lepre, an organic farmer from Italy 🇮🇹
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#IGrowYourFood - Meet Jonas Ringqvist, an organic farmer from Sweden 🇸🇪
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#IGrowYourFood - Meet Mihai Sorin, an organic beekeeper from Romania 🇷🇴
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#IGrowYourFood - Meet Jan Dirk & Irene Van de Voort, an organic farmer from Netherlands 🇳🇱
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#IGrowYourFood - Meet Fergal Anderson, an organic farmer from Ireland 🇮🇪
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#IGrowYourFood – Meet Helena, an organic farmer from Czech Republic 🇨🇿
https://youtu.be/whQEll-IO78

#IGrowYourFood - Meet Joseph Lwevuze, an organic farmer from Uganda 🇺🇬
https://youtu.be/sZN5qnW08eM

#IGrowYourFood - Meet Ieva Stragytė, an organic farmer from Lithuania 🇱🇹
https://youtu.be/sHTOhtduQE4

#IGrowYourFood - Meet Corazon de Raeymaecker, an organic farmer from Belgium 🇧🇪
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#IGrowYourFood - Meet Lutz, Katharina, Christine & Felix, the organic farmers from Austria 🇦🇹
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20 years ago, Tigray was one of the most water-stressed, food-insecure and impoverished regions in Ethiopia. Around that time, the regional and federal governments decided that the way out of the situation was to pursue watershed-based ecological restoration.

The strategy seems to be working: soil quality has improved, water availability has increased, vegetative cover has grown several-fold, production of food is higher and productivity of farmland has been enhanced. The obvious knock-on effect has been a substantial decrease in poverty and improved nutrition.

The Tigray story could have lessons for all of us. This video is a preliminary look at what is widely called Tigray's "Watershed Movement." We would do well to look at the phenomenon more closely, for lessons relevant to our contexts.

Learn more about how climate change impacts agriculture.

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Management tool, checklist, reminder: audits - whether internal or external - work well for Anne Wangechi and her team. From a farm on the northern slopes of Mount Kenya she shows how.
This film, one of eleven, is being used to share good agricultural practice in Africa.
LEAF (http://www.leafuk.org), Waitrose, African fresh produce exporters and Green Shoots Productions (http://www.green-shoots.org) have been working with support of the UK Department for International Development's Food Retail Industry Challenge (FRICH) fund to share good agricultural practice between African farmers.

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Nat Geo - Desert elephant and its characteristics - BBC
Desert elephants are not a distinct species of elephant but are African bush elephants (Loxodonta africana) that have made their homes in the Namib and Sahara deserts. It was believed at one time that they were a subspecies of the African bush elephant but this is no longer thought to be the case. Desert-dwelling elephants were once more widespread in Africa than they are now and are currently found only in Namibia and Mali. They tend to migrate from one waterhole to another following traditional routes which depend on the seasonal availability of food and water. They face pressure from poaching and from changes in land use by humans.