Full tanks, empty plates - Film

Agro fuels, biofuels
Full tanks, empty plates - A documentary by Monique Munting which combines politics and poetry
dvcam - 57 min - sept 2008 - OV French, Spanish, English
Subtitles: English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese
To challenge the threat posed by global warming, the European Union wants to impose the use of crop-based fuels.
The texts refer to "biofuels".
"Bio" means "life".
Is it appropriate to refer to these agro-fuels as "bio"fuels?
"Full tanks, empty plates" questions not only an agricultural model, but also a development model and the existing pattern of North-South relationships. It presents the views of witnesses from the North and the South, intertwining political analysis and meditation, figures and music, testimonies and songs.

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Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• biofuel
• agrofuel
• energy