India in pictures and debate: agroecology in India
As part of the "South Asia and the Himalayas in pictures and debate" series.
Session 2 - India in pictures and debate: agroecology in India
Indian soil in revolution by Renuka George, 2023 l 55 min
In 2015, with the support of the state government of Andhra Pradesh in India, senior civil servant T. Vijay Kumar introduced natural agriculture on a large scale. The aim: to convert 6 million farmers to chemical-free agriculture. Through meetings with farmers and with T. Vijay Kumar, this film is an insight into the success of these new methods and the vision behind the world's largest agroecological transition experiment.
Projection followed by a debate withAnnie Montaut, professor emeritus of Hindi (Inalco), author of Trois mille ans d'écologie indienne : penser autrement la nature(Le Seuil, 2024) and in the presence ofthe director.
