Oh. It is often said that fruits and vegetables used to taste much better and that they were healthier but with a renewed. The i could immediately cotulla to shauns in paris is a balance of knowledge regarding old plan for. Between the old agronomy publications we find something special. In nutrition all composition table for fruits and vegetables it is 60 years old. It lists the fisherman and mineral content of each and every variety. And indeed over the last 60 years many fruits and vegetables seem to have lost some if they need traditional. So how did this happen. They did this american biochemist donald davis lectures on the subject. Im here to tell you about an important problem that many people are not aware of nutritional declines in foods. Davis works at the university of alston texas and has analyzed the development of 43 vegetable varieties between 950 and 999. I think that most of these declines are caused by increases in yield when you score up those nice nutrients per weig
Southern france they got. One of the last traditional seems pretty says in france lives that. John luke does not produce hybrid tomatoes. He creates what he calls old pariahs here. This is how we have 10 seeds. They go in a seed stay on the bottom and the skin close to the tongue has to look to you to. Everyone used to know this technique of producing seeds for themselves. Cycled through to the farmers knew that the next harvest depended on the seeds and they were very careful when producing them for the weeks for some of you ate the tomatoes yourself but the seeds were always the most important thing a small today no farmer produces them anymore but the Big Companies do that. A dying tradition yes almost an orthodox i teach. In this greenhouse theres only cultivates only the old farm growing ts. 100 percent. Effective also it seems a bit wild and chaotic because i only have a small area of land to work with it is that to make the most of the space i squeeze the tomatoes in close toget
Illegal is this work difficult. Yes my eyes are so far because we are so concentrated and i have a bad back. Its hard work but we also have to earn a living. We get 102. 00 euros here a kilo of tomato seeds if we want 26 year olds more so we could pay the women what theyre asking for and still have a profit because. The firm is breaking the law because they dont get an additional 26. 00 heroes per kilo. Sells the seed in europe for an average of 60000. 00 euros per. Hour the company is aware of this illegal practice. We visit an indian location belonging to him close with a hidden camera. At 1st it doesnt look good to god stop us. Forces coming. At us but but but we make a documentary about the seeds in the book so you know things which country. Particularly offense all. As we come from fronts like the Parent Company among clones it seems to open doors we learn to talk to manage it. Good night the man phones his head office. Ok. Thank you very much because. The team is surprised with t
But its an uphill battle. And it is a duck i think if you dig down 3 or 4 metres youll find the house. They live in the well is down there to. The house is totally covered. And thats the real for. Some families have built 3 more stories on top of their original homes in less than 20 years everybody is battling the sand. There with. As theyre going to do well because it started with this crack the entire wall could collapse these wooden joists are all thats keeping the house together i had to move into the new house over there. A number of villages have moved away those still here dont know where to go fertile land is scarce in sudan no one expects any help from the government in the distant capital khartoum. And there we are the forgotten people life is hard in these parts. Of. The desert is also taking over entire tracts of farmland. This is the plantation of our own mohammed al who sign he moved here with his family 15 years ago. This is. 3 off the mongol is the height of 4 to 5 mete
Environmental damage caused by the farming industry has been on the rise in recent years. Animals are often mistreated. In germany a growing number of people want to see changes to Agricultural Policy but little has shifted could this be because of lobbyists in the Agricultural Sector are lobbyists more powerful in this policy area than in others. Our Research Revealed a tightly intertwined web of interests in which corporations influential figures manning several lobbying positions and politicians are closely linked a lot is at stake during the making of this film billions of euros in agricultural subsidies were being negotiated in brussels and germany was under pressure to finally impose stricter limits on the amount of liquid manure used on its fields. Who is. As pulling the strings behind the scenes. Brussels farmers and conservation groups from across europe are protesting outside the headquarters of the European Commission to call for a change in Agricultural Policy they collecte