Amanda McMillan Lequieu

Film, radio, and news cultivated for a popular audience is a great way to help students see connections between “real world concerns” with academic questions.  On this page, I categorize and list links to publicly available media that can help teachers teach social and ecological consequences of a globalizing agrofood system.

Food

• RadioLab on “Cornstalks Everywhere But Nothing Else, Not Even a Bee”
• “Court bans popular farm pesticide defended by Trump. What it means for farms, workers, kids”
• Generation Food in Japan (Land restoration after nuclear, Japan, La Via Campenisa)
• National Geographic on Food and Water – (note, needs adobe flash player)
• Anything by David Cleveland of UCSB
  • Video of his presentation, “What’s on Your Plate? Why Diet Change is Critical for Successful Climate and Health Policies.”
• RELU discusses the comparative merits of consuming vegetables produced locally or overseas 
• Poverty Law Center: Is the local food movement harmful for Americans who are food insecure?
• Raj Patel and Tom Philpott’s podcast, “The Secret Ingredient”
• Western Illinois University’s charming “Where does Thanksgiving Dinner Grow?” site

Developing country justice

• MST Brazil on landless peoples and pesticides
• La Via Campensina
  • Gender and rural labor
  • Anti-industrial agriculture
  • “The world according to Monsanto“
  • Peasants fight for lifestyle
  • Land grabbing in Mali

Films

• The BBC’s three part series, The Future of Food (2004)
  • (Teaching on ag globalization and neocolonialism – see 33:44-39:00)
• Food Inc (2008)
  • Food Inc – ethical eating
  • From seed to the supermarket – GMO and Monsanto
  • Contract chicken farmers from Food Inc
  • Unintended consequences from Food Inc 
• A Place at the Table (2013)
• Harvest of Shame (1960)
  • NPR reflection on the film’s impact
• Food Chains (2014)
• Raj Patel’s forthcoming documentary on the global food system, http://www.generationfoodproject.org/

Waste

• John Oliver clip

Diet and regulation

• Soda Politics (2015)
• Forks over Knives (2011)

Race

• A New York Times article about a former slave who shows up in this 1938 Dept of Ag Extention film, “The Negro Farmer“

Interviews

• Vandava Shiva discusses Monsanto
• Phillip McMichael speaks on ‘peak soil, peak oil’; food crisis of 2007-2008; neoliberalism so developing countries couldn’t compete against artificially cheap prices from developed countries; underlying agrarian crisis – people pushed off land, as they couldn’t afford basic foods… resistance; land grab (governments and financiers investing in land to guarantee food for locals)  (3:55)