Marie Michael Library

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DVD

With insightful interviews and rare footage from India's agricultural industry, this keenly observed film by Meera Dewan depicts Indian women's struggles to use traditional farming practices instead of chemically-based agriculture. Comparing the practices of women who consider seeds sacred with multinational companies' use of sterilized hybrids, this evocative analysis celebrates the scientific basis of women's native traditions in a provocative look at the evolving meanings of healthy land use.