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08 APRIL 2012
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Big Question: Feast or Famine?

"The world population is growing by 75 million people each year. That's almost the size of Germany. Today, we're nearing 7 billion people. At this rate, we'll reach 9 billion people by 2040. And we all need to eat. But how? That's a critical issue the IonE tackles in our first Big Question video.

At the same time, agriculture is a major contributor to climate change and will suffer as an industry from the consequences."

(Institute on the Environment, 2009, University of Minnesota)

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2009 • 2040 • agriculture • animated presentation • Aral Sea • call to action • carbon dioxide • cereal crops • climate change • computer models • consequences • consumption • consumption trends • cows • critical issue • current technologies • desert • ecology • ecosystems • famine • fertilizer • food • global environmental systems • global population • global water crisis • grain production • green revolution • greenhouse gases • greening the desert • H2O • human activities • human civilization • human-caused emissions • Institute on the Environment • Jonathan Foley • land use • late 20th century • livestock • meat • methane • nitrous oxide • over-fertilized fields • population • population growth • rainforest • resource management • rice • Robert Zeigler • ruminant animals • Stanley Wood • sustainability • The Inconvenient Truth • The Other Inconvenient Truth • University of Minnesota • University of Wisconsin • water • world population

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Simon Perkins
15 APRIL 2005
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The Gleaners and I: making art from rubbish

"'The Gleaners and I' is a decidedly personal video documentary by Varda, a film ostensibly preoccupied with 'rubbish'. Varda takes us on a journey where we encounter those who live from other peoples' - from people who eat out of dumpsters and 'glean' provincial fields after harvest, to those who make art from tossed away furniture and beyond. It's a brilliant and playful film and one which Julie Rigg decared she was 'in love with' when she interviewed Agnes Varda.

JULIE RIGG: Agnes Varda, I'm curious about this film. Did it begin as a film about yourself or a film about gleaners?

AGNES VARDA: It's clearly about gleaners, it's clearly not only the intention because who cares about an intention, what is important is the film you see. And not only that, it's a very important subject, a social issue, which is, 'who are those people who eat the leftovers, the leftovers of others?' Who is eating my leftovers, you know? And that was really concerning me, like it does to other people, and I thought instead of having a subject, a subject line and say could we find people to illustrate it? I totally had another attitude and thought how can I meet people who are the subject? So I don't have to explain and make any narration about that, find the right people who will be able to show themselves by their life. [With this film] I was saying 'why will those people live and eat what we throw away, and can I meet them, can I speak to them?' And they are able to say when and what and how."
(Julie Rigg, ABC Australia)

Fig.1 Agnès Varda, 2000. Les Glaneurs et La Glaneuse
Fig.2 Jean François Millet, 1857. Musée d'Orsay

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1857 • 2000 • Agnes Varda • agricultural produce • bio-ethics • collection • consumption • cultural construction • documentary • film • food • found • found object • French • gleaner • grain production • Jean François Millet • land use • peasant • personal film • rubbish • sustainability • tradition • vegetables • waste • women in film

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The Constellations Project
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