Eric Holt-Gimenez advocates for food security and food justice for all farm workers. We all, as a society, will benefit from addressing these global issues.

This film introduces the concept of Enlightened Agriculture - a way of producing food that is designed to provide good food for everyone, everywhere, without cruelty or injustice and without wrecking the biosphere. It showcases some of the farmers and growers who are putting Enlightened Agriculture into practice and the...

Azucena Cabrera, responsible for the Rancho Ecológico Vía Orgánica introduces in this video the functions of flowers in the context of health and biodiversity preervation in our market gardens.

Chemical pesticides for controlling plant diseases and insect pests in farmlands cause a series of serious problems including residue effects, environmental pollution, etc. Bio-pesticides and bio-controls are, on the other hand, slowly effective, high cost, and, always with certain targets. Integrated, high-efficient and environmentally friendly disease and insect-pest control measures...

Loss of biodiversity and associated ecological services in agricultural landscape caused by intensive agricultural production have greatly threatened sustainable agricultural development. Landscape management, together with less intensive practices such as organic agricultural production, should be carefully considered when developing strategies for biodiversity and ecological service restorations as landscape structures have...

Integrated rice-duck farming system, developed from “raising ducks in paddy fields”, is one of China’s traditional agriculture practices and is encouraged for safe production of rice in China, Japan and other countries in Southeast Asia. To study the effects of ducks on the growth characteristics of rice, a mechanical stimulation...