Goat herder is an audiovisual about Jose Acosta Sierra, a man from southern Spain who has spent his entire life under the big open sky, walking with his goats and sheep.
He gives his perspective on modern society´s relationship with the land and suggests we should return to organic and natural milenary farming in harmony with nature.
Here you can watch the audio-slide show about Jose Acosta Sierra
The Heartland is an audio-slide show about farmer Tomas Villanueva Buendia, who began a seed bank he calls "Tepetlixpa Seed Bank", to protect and rescue the original varieties of his nation´s corn.
The Mexican governtment is promoting foreign, genetically modified organism (GMOs) corn.
If GMOs enter Mexico, they could contaminate more than 1000 varieties of corn, killing the legacy of the Aztecs, Mayans, and other indigenous civilizations.
GMOs are banned in many countries due to their connection with causing problems, environmental damage and destroying diversity.
If Mexico lets GMOs destroy their milenary culture of native corn, the legacy of their ancient god Quetzalcoatl (Aztec) and Kukulkan (Mayan) will be lost.
I want to share a photo story on
the affects of agrochemicals in northern Argentina by Associated Press
photographer Natacha Pisarenko. The pictures are accompanied by a story, co-written with Michael Warren.
This is a piece of real photojournalism. Their investigation informs
people about a the very real problem of agrochemicals that
affects all our kitchen tables.
Pisarenko´s
work gives a voice to the farmers and their children suffering the
consequences of industrial farming: high rates of disease, instead of
the usual political and business-based viewpoint. This story opens ones
eyes to see that the problem of agrochemicals isn´t confined to the
farming communities of the world. We are eating the food they produce,
and it´s logically poisoned too.
Aixa Cano, 5, who has hairy moles all over her body that doctors can't
explain, sits on a stoop outside her home in Avia Terai, in Chaco
province, Argentina. Although it’s nearly impossible to prove, doctors
say Aixa’s birth defect may be linked to agrochemicals. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Last year in Nicaragua, AP photographer Esteban
Felix also reported a health related story about sugar cane workers who
are dying at alarming rates, probably for the same reason that these
Argentine farmers are: toxic chemicals. You can see Esteban Felix´s story here.
We are what we eat is an audio-slide show about organic agriculture. Antonio Mulero Tamayo, a successful ecological farmer who has been growing organic food for 17 years, shares what's different about his crops compared to conventional, mass produced food. My images show him and his family working on their farm: the Organic Garden Los Tamayos, located on the outskirts of Prado del Rey in the Sierra de Cádiz in Spain's southerner Andalusia.
