We Feed the World
Our next Eco Film on Friday March 2nd will be We Feed the World.
Genre: Documentary. Director: Erwin Wagenhofer. Austria, 2005. 95 minutes
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Winner of the best documentary award at the Guild of German Art House Cinemas and two awards at the Motovun Film Festival
Every day in Vienna the amount of unsold bread sent back to be disposed of is enough to supply Austria’s second-largest city, Graz. Around 350,000 hectares of agricultural land, above all in Latin America, are dedicated to the cultivation of soybeans to feed Austria’s livestock while one quarter of the local population starves. Every European eats ten kilograms a year of artificially irrigated greenhouse vegetables from southern Spain, with water shortages the result. In WE FEED THE WORLD, Austrian filmmaker Erwin Wagenhofer traces the origins of the food we eat. His journey takes him to France, Spain, Romania, Switzerland, Brazil and back to Austria. Leading us through the film is an interview with Jean Ziegler, the United Nations Special Reporter on the Right to Food.