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Greening the Revolution
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Greening the Revolution

81 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Food justice is the subject, framed by a quote from Brazilian Archbishop Dom Helder Camara: give food to the poor and you're a saint, ask why they have none and you're a communist. The film travels to Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, Kenya, Zambia, India, Brazil, and several regions of the United States, tracking small farmers, cooperatives, and activists building alternatives to industrial agriculture. Interviews and on-the-ground footage compare government-backed agribusiness models with grassroots efforts at food sovereignty, from urban gardens to land reform movements. Cuba's post-Soviet shift toward organic farming and Kenya's smallholder cooperatives sit alongside scenes from Haiti's rural markets and Indian farming communities, building a case that hunger is less about scarcity than about who controls land, seed, and distribution. The film keeps returning to the same question across continents: who gets to decide how food is grown and who it feeds. It plays as a survey of resistance movements rather than a single narrative, letting farmers and organizers speak for themselves.