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Since the 19th century, the fate of cows has been tied to new methods and progress in animal science. Genetics and new ways of rearing animals have accelerated bovine biological transformation and manipulation. These are no longer the same cash cows of yesteryear; men have adapted the bodies of catt...

The Galmi purple, the onion from Niger, pervades West African markets with 400,000 tons a year. In Galmi, Salamatou’s been waiting for her wedding for 2 years. Her father Yaro, urged both by her future in-laws and the village gossip makes a decision : «The wedding will take place at the harvest !» Y...

Remedies for Hunger are found with new technological forms of nutrition which are of great interest to the agro business and the new Internet industrial giants, who are investing millions of dollars in innovative food supply start-ups. Those new methods, efficient to fight malnutrition, will also in...

This documentary combines scientific and political investigation to report on the massive use of neonicotinoids.Designed to kill insects by spreading to each cell of a plant, they end up killing all life approaching it. While scientific studies have proved the neonicotinoids have catastrophic conse...

Today in Europe, we produce 203 million pigs a year. In less then 30 years this quantity has doubled. What has happened during these years? What have we done to the animals and to the people that produce them? In spring 2003, two breeders, one in France the other in Spain, agreed to show Manuela Fré...

The threat of famine and increasing food shortages is not going to go away, on 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 capabl...

These are the incredible adventures of a young Frenchman who left France for China to make wine. Hired by a novice entrepreneur and now responsible to an irritable Chinese businesswoman, Benjamin lands in a far-west decor with an unusual mission: produce the best wine in China. Natural, cultural, ec...

In Lussas, in the South of France, a small group of people has gathered in an old house which used to be the town’s grocery store. Among the vineyards and orchards of cherry trees in blossom, a business is being set up that is quite unique in the rural world: an ultra-modern platform to broadcast in...

As the symbol of authentic, preserved wild nature, forests are undergoing an unprecedented phase of industrialization.  Heavy mechanization, monoculture, fertilizers and pesticides, loss of traditional know-how,  forest management... all follow the intensive agricultural model at an accelerated ryth...

Looking for an economical model, dreaming of fruits, wine or film, Lussas’ residents, a small village in Ardèche, are the actors of a high-speed pursuit. This is about living according to your own principles in a very contemporary world which combines globalization, the internet and sustainable deve...