The Community Alliance for Global Justice (CAGJ) and the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) recently launched a fourth installment, Science, to the short film seriesRich Appetites。新剧集详细介绍了西方慈善事业在破坏非洲传统农业生态实践中的作用。
最新一集探讨了支持农业生态学对工业化农业综合企业模型的本地化计划的重要性。非洲农民呼吁提供更多支持农业生态学的支持。
这一集还旨在揭开农业生态学是落后或没有研究的想法。“我们想做的是证明，实际上，农业生态学本身就是一门科学。”CAGJ的Agra Watch研究顾问Ashley Fent告诉Food Tank。w88优德老虎机平台“农业生态学实际上是在拥抱自然世界中互动和关系的多样性和复杂性，然后试图将它们建立在农业中，这从根本上是科学的。”
这一集强调说：“科学研究一次又一次地表明，农业生态学会提高产量并提供健康，可持续的饮食，同时降低投入成本并提高农场的盈利能力。”
The episode shows that farmers in Benin experienced 50 to 60 percent higher yields after implementing sustainable land management practices. In Malawi, household food security increased 33 percent when farmers diversified crops and added organic materials to the soil. Dr. Mamadou Goïta, Executive Director of the Institute for Research and Promotion of Alternatives in Development (IRPAD), credits high levels of production for a growing population not to biotechnology, but to agroecology. “It’s because people have been resisting, and the resilience of relying on the agroecological system, that they have been feeding themselves,” he says.
尽管非洲的农业生态学背后的科学，科学认为，大型慈善组织倾向于将资金汇入工业化的农业方法。这些型号会损害小农，环境健康，生物多样性和传统食品道。这一集特别关注Bill＆Melinda Gates Foundation（BMGF），该基金会资助了数千个以技术和化学投入为中心的项目。基金会支持的一个项目明确专注于农业生态学。
这一集认为BMGF支持一组狭窄的科学方法。这些无法解决系统性问题，包括气候危机或饥饿，但它们确实为农业综合企业增长提供了空间。芬特（Fent）在这一点上阐述了这一点，对科学的这种狭窄的理解是一个更大的问题的一部分，它通常将基于技术的科学提升到所有其他科学形式之上。
The episode Science builds upon the film’s previous installments to scientifically prove how exporting agribusiness models to Africa is a serious mistake. “Really what we wanted to do with the films was to raise critiques of the African Green Revolution and the role of the BMGF in advancing what we believe is a really destructive and counterproductive form of philanthropy, known as philanthro-capitalism.” Fent tells Food Tank. Philanthro-capitalism, she continues, is “undermining the science that people have been doing for a really long time.”
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