Food production is one of the key activities that helps face the climate crisis. By nature, plant production is a way of capturing CO2 and absorbing it in soils. However, agribusiness proposes a model that demands large amounts of fossil inputs (fertilizers) and that requires homogenizing the territory, that is, that there are no other species of plants or insects that compete with the monoculture. This makes agriculture one of the main CO2-generating activities and a driver of deforestation and loss of insect and seed diversity.
The case of Jalisco is iconic due to the recent boost received by the agro-industrial model, where state authorities are allocating resources and paving the way to make this model the only one in the state. Mainly it is the production of goods that are presented as food in this region: avocado, berries, sugar cane and agave; four products that neither nourish nor improve the food situation of those who consume them or those who produce them. The consequences are evident in the contamination of water by pesticides and fertilizers, the loss of forests and soils and the disintegration of the communities that lose their lands to a model of insatiable extraction.
PRODUCED BY
WITH THE PARTICIPATION
Yásnaya Aguilar and Gael García Bernal
Credits
- Interviewees in order of appearanceAna Martha Becerra Guerrero, Jaime Morales Hernández, Evangelina Robles González, José Antonio Enciso Santos, Rodolfo González Figueroa
- DirectionSantiago Maza
- ProductionGael García Bernal, Magali Rocha Donnadieu, Pablo Montaño Beckmann, Mariana Rodríguez Cabarga
- Script Pablo Montaño Beckmann
- Photography direction Odei Zabaleta
- Additional camera and Aerial Photography Benjamín Soto Ferraris, Cristóbal de Alba de la Peña
- Sound Enrique Domínguez Hernández
- Editor Julián Sarmiento
- Original Score Leo Heiblum
- Music Production Leo Heiblum and Jacobo Lieberman
- Post-production supervisor Priscila Doncel Albores
- Color correction Jesús Domínguez Gómez
- Sound Design Alejandro Quevedo QpX
- AllyJaime Morales Hernández
Acknowledgements
Colectivo por la Autonomía, Red de Alternativas Sustentables Agropecuarias (RASA), Grupo de agricultura orgánica de La Ciénega, Red en Defensa del Maíz, Norberto Rojas Sanabria, Don José Paredes Solorio y familia