Agriculture

The generally accepted definitionof sustainable agricultureis that it is economically viable, environmentally healthfuland socially equitable.

A film about India's agriculture, current issues and the possible future, about where we need to go if we want to work with the environment and create food sustainably.

This film depicts the life of a farmer as he slowly turns his family farm into an industrial animal factory before seeing the errors of his ways and opting for a more sustainable future.

By encompassing the natural environment in its overall vision, biodynamic agriculture aims to produce the best possible in ways that allow future generations to obtain the same – or even better – results. The soil itself is key in this type of agriculture,because it is ultimately dirt on which all life on earth depends, and in particular, the first metre of topsoil.

Pierre Masson explains us the ins and outs of the biodynamic agriculture in particular the respect for the lunar and astral rhythms applied to this farming introduced on a philosophic movement at first...

Pierre and Vincent Masson explain to us the role of their company: Biodynamie Services and the interest for which it is important to choose its plants with the aim of the use under forms of biodynamic preparations in agriculture.

Wine has been made for thousands of years with two ingredients, grapes and time. At Cecchin winery in Mendoza, Argentina they continue to make this drink in the same manor. This film may not give with all Wine Enthusiasts, but it's an intriguing perspective.

Claude and Lydia Bourguignon are soil microbiologists, they study, experiment, analyze in order to better understand the main wine terroirs.Guests at an oenological lunch at the Hotel Albert 1er in Chamonix on Saturday the 25th of August 2012... Throughout the conference, the customers could discover the soil as they have never seen...

Herbert Tratter is one of those pioneers who started many years ago with the idea of ​​not putting either copper or sulfur in his orchards and he found the solution to get there. He now works with homeopathy that he has adapted to agriculture.

Organic farming means farming with Mother Nature and the more people know about the benefits of organic, the better our environment will be. Let organic become the conventional of the future.

Organic agriculture is the environmentally friendly response to traditional agriculture.Here, the treatments used are made from natural ingredients, and the use of petrochemicals is forbidden. Working the land to combat weeds allows for a good assessment of the topsoil and subsoil.

“The Initiates” is nothing other than the rich history of a comic writer named Etienne Davodeau and his neighbour Richard Leroy, a talented winemaker of the Maine-et-Loire.Together, they managed to produce a successful comic book which was turned into a real book of 272 pages.

Traditional agriculture, the most practised form of agriculture around the world, became commonplace following the two world wars, as it was during that era that knowledge about chemistry greatly increased. Traditional agriculture is based on treating the soil and plants with products that are more likely than not noxious, and more likely than not synthetically produced in a laboratory. These products are used to prevent disease or pests from blighting the plant.

Between passion and poetry, this film traces the life of winemakers who have chosen to live closer to nature. It depicts remarkably biodynamic issues.

Carole and Pascal embark on their winter transhumance with three donkeys, four dogs and eight hundred sheep,braving the cold and the snow, with a canvas cover and animal skins as their only shelter at night. An adventure film at the heart of a territory undergoing a radical transformation.