We Feed the World
Day after day, the amount of bread thrown away in Vienna equals what’s eaten in Graz. On about 350,000 hectares, most of it in Latin America, soy beans are grown for Austrian livestock farming while a quarter of the local population goes hungry. Each year, each European consumes ten kilograms of irrigated vegetables from greenhouses in Southern Spain, though water reserves are becoming dangerously low there as a result.In WE FEED THE WORLD Erwin Wagenhofer follows our food’s trail, which took him to France, Spain, Romania, Switzerland and Brazil, then back to Austria.
The unifying thread is an interview with Jean Ziegler, the UN’s special rapporteur on the right to food.
WE FEED THE WORLD is a film about food and globalization, fishermen and farmers, truck drivers and corporate executives, flows of goods and money: a film about shortage in abundance. It provides unforgettable insight into how our food’s produced and the first answers to the question of what world hunger has to do with us.
Opinions are heard, from fishermen, farmers, agronomists, biologists and Jean Ziegler, in addition to the production manager at Pioneer, the world’s largest seed company, and Peter Brabeck, chairman of the Nestlé corporation, the largest food company on the planet.
