Seeds of Plenty, Seeds of Sorrow

SEEDS OF PLENTY, SEEDS OF SORROW
(52 min., Hindi with English subtitles, 1992)
Director: Manjira Datta | Producer: Sanjay Seth, for BBC Television | Editor: Graham Whitlock
Camera: Jugal K. Debata, John Beck | Sound: Dileep Subramaniam, Doug Mawson
The much mythologised Green Revolution led India and other developing nations away from famine and hunger. But 25 years later, who benefits from the biotech package? Peasant? Big farmer? Multinational corporation? And what damage has been done to the social ecologies of the global south? A darker side to the ‘miracle’.

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