Pregnant and Working in the Fields

Seven Months Pregnant and Working in the Fields 

How to view: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26154092

Director: | Producer: Sonia Narang 

Produced | Country: Nepal 

Run Time: 2 minutes 24 seconds  | Language: Nepali (English subtitles) 

Synopsis: Women in Nepal do the lion's share of agricultural work, and it's common for them to continue working in the fields throughout pregnancy. But this can seriously affect their health, and that of their unborn child.

Opinion: Read the fill article on the BBC page along with the video. 

The Reality of Food Aid: Bill Pritchard

The Reality of Food Aid: Bill Pritchard 

How to view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJc0tYNGcWo

Director: TEDx | Producer: TED Talks

Produced | Country: Australia 

Run Time: 13.05 minutes | Language: English 

Synopsis: Bill Pritchard, human geographer, challenges our views on what it takes to create a food-secure world. Bill is an Associate Professor in Geography at the University of Sydney, where he teaches and researches on food, agriculture and rural and regional development. He embraces a geographer's passion to understand the world, believing that the best way to understand an issue is to see it first hand and talk directly to the people involved.

Opinion: Interesting insight into food aid from a geographical perspective.  

Impact of the FTA with Colombian Small-Scale Framers

Impact of the FTA with Colombian Small-Scale Framers and Workers 

How to view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ny3C3d-ToI 

Director: | Producer: Enlalucha Films, US Office on Colombia 

Produced | Country: Colombia  

Run Time: 6.41 minutes  | Language: Spanish (English subtitles) 

Synopsis:  Today, the U.S. Office on Colombia, along with more than 400 other organizations, academics, and individuals from the United States and Colombia, sent a letter to the U.S. Congress asking representatives to vote no on the pending U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement (FTA). The Labor Action Plan has not stopped new violence on trade unionists and labor activists from taking place, nor has it banned third party contracting that obstructs workers’ ability to unionize. 

Opinion: This powerful video voices the opinions of small-scale farmers, laborers and women of how rural areas in Colombia are being displaced. See how hegemonic countries affect the developing world. 

Camp Green

Camp Green 

How to view: http://www.oxfamamerica.org/multimedia/video/camp-green/

Director: | Producer: Oxfam creative productions 
Produced | Country: Uganda 
Run Time: 3.42 minutes | Language: Swahili (English subtitles) 

Synopsis: Fifty feet by 32 feet: as far as farms go, that's probably one of the smallest in the world. But that hasn't stopped Harriet Nakabaale from turning her hard-packed chunk of Kampala into something of a miracle. In a city where overcrowding chokes many neighborhoods and nothing, it seems, can grow in them, Nakabaale's Camp Green is like a beacon. It bursts with living things, all of them edible--an important survival tactic in an urban area where the high cost of buying food can saddle a family with relentless poverty.
Read more of Harriet's story here http://www.oxfamamerica.org/multimedia/articles/harriet-nakabaales-camp-green 

Opinion: Camp green proves that even a tiny plot of land with some hard work can be a new way forward. 

Recommendation:

Common Ground: Urban Farmers Nourish their Communities

Common Ground: Urban Farmers Nourish their Communities 

How to view: http://www.oxfamamerica.org/multimedia/video/common-ground-urban-farmers-nourish-their-communities/

Director: | Producer: Oxfam America
Produced | Country: Global 
Run Time: 4.38 minutes | Language: English

Synopsis:Innovative small-scale urban farmers all over the world are helping to ensure access to local, healthy food. From Harriet's backyard plot in Kampaala, Uganda to Amanda's community farm in Waltham, Massachusetts, farmers share the desire to nourish the world. Oxfam is thankful for small-scale farmers whose work feeds billions of people around the world

Opinion:

Recommendation: Oxfam America 

Seeds of Hunger

Viewers: Brittany Collins and Brian Rawson

Stream for free: http://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/festival/play/5856/Seeds-of-Hunger (Must request individual viewing link)

About:

Director: Yves Billy & Richard Prost | Producer: Auteurs Associes

Produced: 2008 | Country: France
Run time: 52:26 | Language: English

Synopsis: The threat of famine and increasing food shortages is not going to go away; rather it is to the contrary.  Above and beyond the stock market phenomenon lies the problem of the decline in food production that now has a structural basis.  The demonstration is overwhelming, and forces on us the question: are we capable of avoiding the impending crash?

Opinion:

• Good film with great information
• Does a decent job of at least touching on most of the GROW campaign aspects

• Focuses too exclusively on problems rather than solutions (we want viewers to feel energized rather than defeated from the start)
• Underlying message is the issue of the globalization and industrialization of agriculture (not a focus of GROW)

Recommendation: 

• Show the first 15 minutes to lead into a discussion about the GROW campaign
• Good for showing for:
• People already involved in and aware of these issues (OAC organizers and committed volunteers rather than the general public)
• Raises lots of various questions only marginally related to or outside of GROW
• Does not explore the small-scale food producer perspective.