A road movie produced by the Access to land partnership
The Land for our Food is a documentary movie produced by the Access to Land network and directed by Julio Molina. The video takes us on the journey of Gavin Bridger, a grower from the Community Supported Agriculture project of Farnham Local Food in England, through various European countries in his quest of accessing land for agroecological farming. The Farnham community food project is actually in search of land and Gavin discovers that this is by far an isolated problem! All over Europe the difficulty to find suitable and affordable land is posing a great barrier to the development of sustainable and often small-scale agriculture. His mentor, Rachel Harries from the Soil Association, links Gavin up to the Access to Land network and the journey is on its way.
This road-movie documentary gives us insights into the contexts and approaches of civil society initiatives from various countries in Europe regarding access to land: England, France, Spain, Italy and Romania. Gavin meets some of the initiatives from the Access to Land network, and also meets farmers and journalist George Monbiot to better understand the scope and historical roots of access to land issues. This documentary provides a very concrete introduction to access to land issues in Europe and captures a range of practical experiences in a unique way!
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Duration: 34 minutes
Original language: English
Sub-titled versions: French - soon: Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Romanian and German
Distributed under Creative Commons Licence Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 2.0
How to view and share the film?
Feel free to view, screen and share the movie as much as you want!
View the movie on-line - in English (above) or in French. More language versions will be added in June!
We will soon offer you the possibility to download the movie to organise a public screening. Come back around 25 April!
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Download our background materials to present the movie around you or announce a public screening:
- Film Overview
- Pictures and quotes from the movie
- Land for our Food Poster (A4/A3)
View here the list of upcoming public screenings.
Link to the movie: http://www.accesstoland.eu/film-Land-for-our-food