L'Essence de la Terre - Les Mayas face aux agrocarburants

The film shows the social and environmental consequences of the development of agrofuel in Guatemala. A recruiter takes us into the small villages where small farmers, driven by hunger and degradation of their land, are forced to work in the large plantations of the country. In northern Petén, Mayan peasants, driven from their land by the greed of multinational corporations, attest to the violent methods often used to grab their native soil. But resistance is growing and some Mayan communities are developping an alternative economic model, local and collective, around the cultivation of jatropha. With the explanations from Jean Ziegler.