We Feed the World is a film about food and
globalisation, fishermen and farmers, long-distance lorry drivers and
high-powered corporate executives, the flow of goods and cash flow–a
film about scarcity amid plenty. With its unforgettable images, the
film provides insight into the production of our food and answers the
question what world hunger has to do with us.
Every day in Vienna the amount of unsold bread sent back to be disposed
of is enough to supply Austria's second-largest city, Graz. Around
350,000 hectares of agricultural land, above all in Latin America, are
dedicated to the cultivation of soybeans to feed Austria's livestock
while one quarter of the local population starves. Every European eats
ten kilograms a year of artificially irrigated greenhouse vegetables
from southern Spain, with water shortages the result.
In WE FEED THE WORLD,
Austrian filmmaker Erwin Wagenhofer traces the origins of the food we
eat. His journey takes him to France, Spain, Romania, Switzerland,
Brazil and back to Austria.
Leading us through the film is an interview with Jean Ziegler, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food.
Interviewed are not only fishermen, farmers, agronomists, biologists
and the UN's Jean Ziegler, but also the director of production at
Pioneer, the world's largest seed company, as well as Peter Brabeck,
Chairman and CEO of Nestlé International, the largest food company in
the world.
