Up in Smoke. Can Slash-and-Burn Agriculture Be Replaced?
Description
After 25 years of research, scientist Mike Hands has perfected a sustainable farming technique called alley cropping to replace slash-and-burn agriculture in equatorial rainforests. Now all he has to do is convince governments, NGOs, and farmers who are barely scraping by to adopt it. Filmed over four years in Honduras and the U.K., this documentary places slash-and-burn agriculture within the context of two interrelated threats to global stability - accelerating climate change and diminishing food security - as it spotlights two Honduran farmers, one of whom has embraced Hands' technique and one who has adopted a wait-and-see stance.
Runtime
70 min
Subjects
- Environmental geography (78)
- Climatic changes (510)
- Shifting cultivation (1)
- Agricultural innovations (14)
- Land use (186)
- Water-supply (180)
- Air (201)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2014], c2012
Database
Films on Demand
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