Seed Stories (0:42:00)

Directed by Chitrangada Choudhury, (India), Documentary

In a village in the Niyamgiri mountains of the Eastern Ghats in Odisha, eastern India, a heroic effort is underway: barefoot ecologist Dr. Debal Deb and his 3 member-team are conserving over one thousand endangered heirloom varieties of rice, the world’s largest project of its kind. ‘Seed Stories’ takes a worm’s eye view of how the swift expansion of a chemical-intensive cotton monoculture is reshaping a geography and a people steeped in agro-ecological knowledge, and altering their attitudes towards farming, food, and ecology. It invites audiences to reflect on the question, ‘What is sustainability?’
                                   
Sat, Apr 12, 12:45pm, Public Library, 2nd Floor











 

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