Our Seeds: Seeds Blong Yumi – Watch for Free
In September 2008 Seed Savers released their first film, “Our Seeds: Seeds Blong Yumi”, a 57 minute documentary that celebrates traditional food plants and the people that grow them.
We have now released this documentary on the net for free viewing (with English audio and Portuguese subtitles — we will put French, Chinese and Japanese subtitled versions online in the future). Watch it now (or read more about it below the video):
Indigenous farmers around the world face increasing pressure from agribusiness corporations that push their uniform seeds. Many of these varieties require costly inputs such as pesticides and chemical fertilisers.
Seed Savers directors, Michel and Jude Fanton, shot the film in eleven countries of Europe, Asia and Oceania. It features Pacific islanders who face great challenges: replacing innumerable varieties of root staples with modern hybrids that require pesticides and chemical fertilisers; importing low-quality starch thereby risking losing their resilient food crops.
“Our Seeds” has been shown several times on national television in American Samoa and Western Samoa, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands. Excerpts have been shown on national television in Serbia, Malaysia and Taiwan and Portugal.
This one hour documentary will help you if you are presenting the idea of a Local Seed Network in your region.
There are instructive motion graphics and a rich sound track, of mostly indigenous music recorded on-location. Audio is English or Pacific Pidgin.
Brilliantly made with no biases, and so simple to understand.Thanks for providing the video link free. I hope that majority of people will watch this very imperative issue that explains the biodiversity of our food and sustainability and that everyone will contribute to the protection of our food security.
Nice informative video, however, I must make a correction. Diabetes isn’t caused by over eating; it’s something that you are born with. I know this because I am diabetic, and have many friends who are as well. There is no way that my friend ate enough to cause diabetes at the age of 11 months. Be sure that all of your facts are right. Over eating causes obesity; not diabetes.