Agrofuels: Starving People, Fuelling Greed

Synopsis: An account of the downside of alternative, food-based fuel sources. The film explores agrofuels and monocrops, looking at how the increasingly common practice of diverting food crops to the industrial production of cellulose-based fuels is devastating indigenous communities, undermining small farmers, and endangering the environment across Latin America. It also shows how grassroots communities are developing better, cleaner alternatives.
Language: English
Country: United States
Year of release: 2012
Year of production: 2012
Documentation: Online transcript available. http://www.mediaed.org/assets/products/162/transcript_162.pdf
Subjects: Anthropology; Development studies; Environmental science
Keywords: Latin America; globalisation; agrofuels; fuel sources

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