Script - Cow 80 has a problem
Cow 80 has a problem
the battle between two agricultural models
or
COW 80 HAS A PROBLEM
farmer against agro-industry
SENEGAL - NDIOGOU FALL ON THE FIELD
NDIOGOU FALL AT SQUARE IN HONG KONG
SVO – Ndiogou Fall
Farmer leader Roppa
The vast majority of farmers
in the world are opposed to WTO rules.
FRANCE - RENE LOUAIL WITH HIS SHEEP
RENE LOUAIL AT SQUARE IN HONG KONG
SVO – René Louail
Farmer leader Confédération Paysanne
We can only change something
by building strong alliances
with farmers in the South.
BRAZIL - ALTEMIR TORTELLI MILKING A COW
ALTEMIR TORTELLI AT MANIFESTATION IN HONG KONG
SVO – Altemir Tortelli
Farmer leader Fetraf
There is a fight between
two agricultural models.
The agro-industry on one side
and on the other side the model we defend,
in which the farmer and his family are
central, in which farmers produce
food for themselves and
especially for Brazilians.
TWO MODELS ARE SHOWN / MUSIC
1. PRAISE OF FOLLY
BRAZIL
SVO – Brazil
COMINETTI ABANDONED VILLAGE
WALTER COMINETTI
SVO – Walter Cominetti
In the past, the entire river bank was inhabited.
This parish counted 52 families,
this community had
200 inhabitants.
When the land didn’t yield anymore,
because of soil deterioration and erosion,
young people left for town
to work in large companies like
Sadia, Cooper Alfa, Aurora in Chapecó.
AERIAL VIEW BURNING FOREST
COMMENTARY on second shot
Large scale agriculture is progressing everywhere in Brazil.
Everything has to give way, forests, nature.
FROM FORESTS TO ENDLESS FIELDS
COMMENTARY (on panorama)
In this country, there is no place for people, almost everybody has to move, to towns or elsewhere.
ADAMIR BATISTELLA WITH THRESHER
SVO – Adamir Batistella
In our farm, we grow cereals,
maize and soy.
We cultivate 430 hectares.
Almost all the small farmers in this area
have sold their farm
to buy land in
Mato Grosso.
Until three years ago we had a
good yield.
We had the best profits ever and as far as I
was concerned, this situation could last forever.
Then production costs increased
and the soy price decreased.
We had two years of drought
and the prices kept dropping year after year.
The soy price is fixed at
the cereal market of Chicago.
I don’t really understand it, but the price is fixed
over there in dollars.
SPRAYING AIRPLANE: SMALL FARM IN THE MIDDLE OF LARGE FARMS
COMMENTARY (read after 1”)
Even if large landowners loose money with soy, the largest losers of the non-ecological agro-industry are the environment and small scale family farmers.
NADIA DEMBOSKI
SVO – Nadia Demboski
We wanted to produce milk
in an ecological way.
Our biggest concern was to separate
our land from that of large companies who
spray and poison our production.
This way our animal feed and our milk were polluted.
The large company starts here. Our terrain
ends where the maize is drier.
From there on, airplanes spray
toxic substances.
TORTELLI FARM IN THE MIST
ALTEMIR TORTELLI
SVO – Altemir Tortelli
Farmer leader Fetraf
This upper part is for fruit trees.
A STROLL WITH THE COWS
COMMENTARY (read after 1”)
Family agriculture has difficulties to survive, admits Altemir Tortelli, who besides being a farmer leader, is also a farmer with plans for the future.
ALTEMIR TORTELLI
This is already a heifer
from our milk cows,
the first animal
born on the farm.
ALTEMIR TORTELLI
This company has no pollution.
There are no chemical products.
LARGE LANDOWNER / HARVESTED SOY IN THRESHER
COMMENTARY (begin on shot large landowner)
In 2005, Brazil exported twenty million tons of soy to Europe.
(In 2005, the EU imported 39 million tons of soy: 51% from Brazil.)
FRANCE
LARGE SCALE CATTLE FARMER
SVO - FRANCE
COMMENTARY (read on second shot)
Gilles Bedel owns a farm with 300 hectares, with among other things 130 cows, yearly producing 1.1 million litres of milk.
GILLES BEDEL
SVO – Gilles Bedel
The cows are fed once a day,
in the morning.
In France, we lack proteins.
The proteins are mainly coming from
Brazilian soy.
At first we had ecological restraints
that increased our production costs,
now we have to face the market liberalisation.
Every 10, 15 years,
you have to reflect and adjust.
SMALL SCALE FARMER
JOSEPH TEMPLIER OUT FOR A WALK
SVO – Joseph Templier
That is the highest point
of the Côtes d’Armor, 339 meters.
TV and radio antenna, and over there
the wind mills, since the 15th of December.
This is exactly what we stand for,
alternative energy, inexhaustible.
JOSEPH TEMPLIER IN THE FIELD (read almost immediately)
COMMENTARY
The farm of Joseph Templier has a surface of 42 hectares and 25 cows that yearly produce 115.000 litres of milk.
JOSEPH TEMPLIER
We plant a diversified
flora in the pasture,
and there is also the natural flora
one can see here.
This provides a very varied flora and balanced animal feed.
JOSEPH TEMPLIER milking cows
All my animal feed comes from the farm,
except in times of drought, that occur now and then.
JOSEPH TEMPLIER in the cowshed
For more than 15 years we have been
producing milk with only grass,
no foreign proteins,
no soy from Latin America, the US or Canada.
GILLES BEDEL in the large shed
SVO – Gilles Bedel
Of course there is the fall of
market prices
that will even further decrease our margins.
For me, the strategy is simple,
intensify the production even more,
a constant increase in productivity
of cows and extension of the farm.
JOSEPH TEMPLIER
SVO – Joseph Templier
No, intensification is no solution.
The World Trade Organisation and the European
agricultural policy are completely opposed to
biological or sustainable agriculture.
We only receive 50 euros
of subsidies per hectare,
while some farmers
receive 400 euro per hectare.
MILK ROBOTS
JEAN-FRANCOIS CORDON IN THE SHED
SVO – Jean-François Cordon
This cow is waiting
until the other one leaves,
then she will enter …
you’ll see the connection of
the udders.
COMMENTARY (read 2” after the quote)
This European subsidy systems leads to more and more production from large farmers, more and more automation.
One robot automatically milks 50 cows.
JEAN-FRANCOIS CORDON IN HIS OFFICE
This system is very convenient,
but more supervision is required.
There, a failure,
cow nr. 80 has a problem.
RENE LOUAIL WITH HIS SHEEP
SVO – René Louail
Farmer leader Confédération Paysanne
I have a farm of 38 hectares,
less than the average
of 50 hectares.
I have 180 sheep for meat and three
poultry houses for chickens with label.
RENE LOUAIL IN A PHONE CONVERSATION
Hello Dominique…
we of the Confédération Paysanne
support the principle of
fair trade.
COMMENTARY
Tonight, René is participating in a debate on fair trade. He will also formulate his criticism on the European agricultural policy.
RENE LOUAIL makes batter for Breton pancakes
RENE LOUAIL
The support, essential for the agriculture, is now
hogged by 20 % of the European farmers
who use them to compete with and to
starve farmers in the South.
The agricultural support has to be better divided.
DEBATE IN MUZILLAC
RENE LOUAIL during the debate
The market constantly
brings down the prices
and our only answer is
more and more production.
Do you think it’s normal we
continue to subsidize overproduction
in Europe when this implies
the disappearance
of farmers in the East, in Africa
or elsewhere?
And what do they say?
You, European and American farmers,
stop exporting your overproduction,
with the help of subsidies,
because this will kill us.
HONG KONG WTO
FARMER LEADERS IN HONG KONG
SVO – Hong Kong
COMMENTARY
In Hong Kong, the World Trade Organisation is meeting. These meetings are no longer the exclusive work area of diplomats and industrial lobbyers.
Farmers have also found the way to defend their interests.
The past years they met at the WTO meetings and held their own preparatory meetings.
PRESS CONFERENCE WITH FIRST LOUAIL ON SCREEN
RENE LOUAIL
SVO – René Louail
Confédération Paysanne
In the world, 800 million
persons are underfed.
Every year, 50 million farmers quit because
the economic rules force them to.
ALTEMIR TORTELLI
SVO – Altemir Tortelli
Fetraf
The liberalisation of agricultural trade and
the absence of regulation
cause a lot of damage in the world:
hunger, unemployment,
inequality, poverty.
GEORGE NAYLOR (NFFC)
SVO – George Naylor
National Family Farm Coalition - US
You have to understand that subsidies
are a part of the WTO process
because the US agricultural economy
is not able to function without subsidies
as long as nobody knows how low
the agricultural prices can drop.
NDIOGOU EATING IN HONG KONG
COMMENTARY (on the second shot)
The Senegalese Ndiogou Fall is also in Hong Kong. He leads the West African farmer organisation Roppa.
SENEGAL
FARM NDIOGOU FALL
SVO – Senegal
NDIOGOU FALL with his cows
NDIOGOU FALL
SVO – Ndiogou Fall
Farmer leader Roppa
Calves, bull, milk cows,
ten animals in total.
COMMENTARY (on second shot)
On his own farm, Ndiogou feels the liberalisation of the
agricultural markets.
NDIOGOU FALL
The largest problem is the competition
of multinationals in the milk sales.
I don’t have a lot of milk,
less than 100 litres a day.
But even then, I sometimes have
problems to sell on the local market.
In every shop you can find bags of milk powder
from Europe or somewhere else.
These bags don’t even cost
8 eurocent per litre.
If we cannot sell at 50 cent
per litre, we don’t cover the costs.
It is not my fault or that of the consumers,
it is our national agricultural policy
that has to change.
SHOP KEEPER TAKES MILK POWDER IN SHOP
HENRIETTE SOW FILLS BAG WITH MILK POWDER
HENRIETTE SOW
SVO – Henriette Sow
This is milk powder
from the Netherlands,
it is not the same as
Senegalese milk.
This is how you make it.
One bag costs 8 eurocent.
There are different types of milk powder,
coffee milk, Vitalait, white, such as this powder,
this is with banana flavour …
this is with mint.
PREPARING MILK IN THE SHOP
HENRIETTE SOW
We add some water,
a bit of salt …
and five hours later it becomes
like this milk.
MILK SHOP DAKAR
COMMENTARY (read on milk shop Dakar)
Senegal imports twice the quantity of milk products that it produces and four fifth comes from Europe.
Products based on milk powder are sold everywhere.
KALIDOU THIERNO BA
SVO – Kalidou Thierno Ba
In Dakar, we have more
than 500 vending points,
and even more in the interior,
in the 11 regions of Senegal.
AT NDIOGOU FALL’S HOUSE / FATOU NDOYE SELLS FRESH MILK
COMMENTARY (begin on girl after 2”)
At home, Ndiogou Fall’s wife also sells milk // fresh milk.
FATOU NDOYE
SVO – Fatou Ndoye
The milk comes from my cows.
I bought the cows
because people need
fresh milk.
When at night I milk the cows,
the clients come and wake me in the morning
for their curdled milk.
People adore this milk,
I deliver it and
they pay me at the end of the month.
FARM NDIOGOU FALL
NDIOGOU FALL
SVO – Ndiogou Fall
Farmer leader Roppa
The problem of the commercialisation of
my milk is closely linked to the
WTO agreements that preach the
liberalisation of the economy
and that enter us in competition with
foreign countries.
This cannot function. Europe has subsidies,
we receive nothing from our state,
for everything you see here,
there are no subsidies.
If I have to compete with Europe
through free trade agreements,
this will kill my farm.
This is why we cannot accept this system.
Therefore, we ask our ministers to
stop this liberalisation at
national, regional and international level.
MANIFESTATION DAKAR
COMMENTARY (start reading after 4”, the car is passed)
In order to enforce their claims, the Senegalese farmer organisations are mobilizing in the large stadium of Dakar. Ndiogou addresses the 30.000 attendants.
NDIOGOU FALL
We are opposed
to every policy
that doesn’t give priority
to farmers.
SHOT OF THE PUBLIC
NDIOGOU FALL
Onions from the Netherlands and France
are stopping our farmers from selling.
Each year farmers quit because
of this competition and migrate.
HONG KONG
MANIFESTATION
SVO – Hong Kong
NDIOGOU FALL
SVO – Ndiogou Fall
Farmer leader Roppa
Agriculture is something completely different
than cars, it is a vital
sector that doesn’t belong in
the World Trade Organisation.
ALTEMIR TORTELLI AT MANIFESTATION
SVO – Altemir Tortelli
Farmer leader Fetraf
It is a shame the Brazilian
government policy gives priority
to the export model.
It is necessary to fight this battle
on two fronts:
at the negotiation table
and through manifestations in the streets.
2. CHICKEN TRAFFIC OR OWN WAY
BRAZIL
SADIA TRUCKS FROM NIGHT TO DAY
SVO – Brazil
COMMENTARY (second shot)
In Chapecó, South Brazil, Sadía and other agro-industrial enterprises are working at full speed, day and night.
ALTEMIR TORTELLI at Sadia in Chapecó
SVO – Altemir Tortelli
Farmer leader Fetraf
Hundreds and hundreds of trucks are
driving on Brazilian highways
to transport the production
of our agricultural companies.
This truck that arrives
transports chickens and turkeys
that after processing are sold
in supermarkets throughout Brazil.
PAOLO AND MARCIA BALEN ON THEIR CHICKEN FARM
COMMENTARY (read on INT)
Paolo Balen and his wife Marcia are producing for themselves and for the local market. But they are mainly depending on the agro-industry. They breed chickens for export.
MARCIA BALEN
SVO – Marcia Balen
We don’t eat them.
These chickens contain
a lot of chemicals,
grow hormones. After only 40 to 45
days, they weigh 3.5 kg.
PAOLO BALEN
SVO – Paolo Balen
We work for a large agro-industrial company, an integrator.
They provide the chickens, feed
and technical support.
We deliver the labour, installations and
everything that is necessary to breed chickens.
Our revenue decreases year after year.
ALTEMIR TORTELLI at Sadia in Chapecó
In reality, we are employees
without a contract.
The integrated pig breeders,
chicken farmers and other farmers
have an income, but this is
not in proportion with the
income of large companies
that control the entire process.
FARM CLAIRTON AND ROSANGELA BALEN processing cheese
alternative
CLAIRTON BALEN
SVO – Clairton Balen
We started in 2002,
we were on the market and
saw that nobody sold cheese.
You control everything:
production, processing and sales.
You are independent, a very good thing.
COMMENTARY (after end quote and end shot)
Clairton is Paolo’s brother. He got fed up with the dependence on cereal production. (wait for Rosangela) Together with his wife Rosangela, they chose another way.
ROSANGELA BALEN
SVO – Rosangela Balen
I am cutting,
slowly,
until we have equal small pieces.
CLAIRTON BALEN
If we would sell the milk,
we’d receive a maximum of 15 / 16 eurocent.
With the processing into cheese,
we receive almost 30 eurocent.
CHICKEN FARM PAOLO AND MARCIA BALEN
PAOLO BALEN
SVO – Paolo Balen
Production for the local market
guarantees our income.
Export production can cause
more difficulties.
MARCIA BALEN
SVO – Marcia Balen
The problem is the bird flu,
which is a mayor concern.
PAOLO BALEN
The company claims new investments,
which are very expensive.
Moreover, the sales of chicken meat
are stopped,
so it are risk investments.
ALTEMIR TORTELLI at Sadía in Chapecó
ALTEMIR TORTELLI
We are merely providers of raw materials.
If we are useful and adapt to
the model and technologies, we are integrated.
If this is no longer the case, we are excluded.
This is the logic, the basis of empires
such as Sadia and many other agro-industries.
CHEESE PRODUCTION FARM CLAIRTON AND ROSANGELA BALEN
ROSANGELA
SVO – Rosangela Balen
In the past, I worked on the land,
very hard labour.
I love my actual work, because under the
hot sun of more than 30°,
from the morning to the night
and without any result,
we never had money.
Now, we have money coming in every week.
CLAIRTON BALEN
SVO – Clairton Balen
Compared to when we cultivated cereals
we are gaining in 3 months
what we earned in one year
and with 90 percent less risk.
CHICKEN FARM PAOLO AND MARCIA BALEN
PAOLO BALEN
We are set aside, because we don’t have
anything to say, we can only nod.
If the investments are too high, we are thinking
about stopping, maybe we’ll buy some more cows.
ALTEMIR TORTELLI (at Paolo’s and Marcia’s)
ALTEMIR TORTELLI
SVO – Altemir Tortelli
Farmer leader Fetraf
The production is increasing, but with less families
and hundreds of thousands of people are excluded.
We are questioning this model.
Our alternative is that farmers
organise production, processing and sales.
FRANCE
FARM IN FRANCE
RENE LOUAIL in poultry house
SVO - France
RENE LOUAIL
SVO – René Louail
Farmer leader Confédération Paysanne
These are slow
growing chickens.
In the agro-industry a chicken of 1.5 kilo
is bred in 40 to 42 days.
These will weigh 2 kilos after
80 to 90 days.
They are mainly destined
for the market of quality agriculture,
the biological sector and other labels
of controlled origin.
It is a pity that our contracts with
industrials are yielding
less and less. The costs increase
and prices decrease.
We have to step out of this
industrial system.
Most industrials also control the labels.
This isn’t normal.
We have to make sure that labelled products
end up in a completely independent circuit.
RENE LOUAIL bakes Breton pancakes
RENE LOUAIL
Here you have a Breton pancake.
COMMENTARY
The chicken industry has also globalized. Next to more independence for farmers, René sees another solution.
A profitable minimum price prevents
that one buys chickens in Brazil
to break the prices here.
That is what we have to stop.
COMMENTARY
Every year, Europe imports for almost 0.5 billion euros of Brazilian chickens.
EGG AND CHEESE ON PANCAKE
Less intermediaries you have,
less parasites you have,
companies that as speculators,
by sticking one label,
make as much or more than with
three months of work to breed a chicken.
PIERRE-YVES AIGNEL PICKS GRASS IN THE PASTURE
SVO – Pierre-Yves Aignel
We defend sustainable agriculture.
We always keep in mind the balance
between three dimensions,
the economic, it is unavoidable,
the ecological as a permanent concern,
and a social function to the extent
that we want to share the
production means in stead of concentrating
them and that we want to enable as much farmers
as possible to lead a decent life
from their work.
JOSEPH TEMPLIER IN PASTURE
SVO – Joseph Templier
Biological or sustainable agriculture
has a future to the extent that
producers can find their way
to consumers.
FAMILY TEMPLIER AT THE TABLE
COMMENTARY (read on second shot)
Dinner time at the Templier family where the wife does the bookkeeping.
MARYSE TEMPLIER AT DESK
SVO – Maryse Templier
This will be the best year
in four.
We had some difficult years
due to the low milk price.
The future depends on consumers
that do their shopping.
It is a political act,
not everybody realises that.
JOSEPH TEMPLIER IN CAR
We’re going to attend a meeting
of a consumer association.
PIERRE-YVES AIGNEL in car
JOSEPH IN CAR
They founded the association Voisins de Paniers
to purchase quality products
from biological and sustainable agriculture.
VOISINS PANIERS
COMMENTARY
In stead of selling his milk, Pierre-Yves prefers to process it in own management into better paid products. He sells these products through Voisins de Paniers.
PIERRE-YVES AIGNEL in front of fridge
SVO – Pierre-Yves Aignel
Here you have my products.
We have eight products.
There is a natural yoghurt,
this is the basis.
To this natural yoghurt, we add
real jam.
JULIE DUPETITPRE
SVO – Julie Dupetitpré
Voisins de Paniers
There are some 200 members and we deliver
approximately 80 baskets a week.
Some fifty producers are
collaborating with us.
We guarantee a proper revenue
for their work.
CLIENT 1
I am apposed to super markets.
Here I find what I like because.
You know who the producers are.
PIERRE-YVES AIGNEL
The consumers benefit and the farmer
delivers directly to his neighbour,
and wants to work even better.
CLIENT 2
Outstanding.
Excellent tea, very good tea.
And this way, you stimulate
local producers.
CLIENT 2
Civilians have to take their own
matters in hands
and co-develop this alternative
to supermarkets
because politics don’t provide a
balance between both systems.
HONG KONG
EXTERNAL VIEW PALACE OF CONGRESS / IMAGE PRESS CONFERENCE
SVO – Hong Kong
COMMENTARY (read on the second shot = INT)
In the World Trade Organisation, politicians don’t reach an agreement. EU commissioner Mandelsson gives a press conference.
PC WITH MANDELSSON
If we talk about agriculture,
it are not the developing countries
but the large export countries
that have exaggerated demands.
We committed ourselves to completely
abolish our export subsidies.
Last year, the US only promised reforms and
measures on food aid.
BOVE LISTENING TO MANDELSSON
BRAZILIAN TRADE MINISTER ON LARGE SCREEN
The problem is that, whatever Europe says,
the credibility is gone.
ALTEMIR TORTELLI interview by Canal Plus
SVO – Altemir Tortelli
Farmer leader Fetraf
The new political relations in the WTO and the international trade debate are important.
Today, decisions are no longer taken
between the US and EU.
PRESS CONFERENCE WITH BRAZIL, INDIA,…
COMMENTARY
Countries like India and Brazil are from now on co-deciding on world markets.
FRENCH FARMERS IN A BIG DISCUSSION
COMMENTARY
The opening of the agricultural markets also leads to differences of opinion among farmers. It is not easy to reach common points of view.
FRENCH FARMER LEADERS IN DISCUSSION
Damn.
It is impossible to discuss with you.
Are you listening to what I say?
We are committing suicide.
A European agricultural policy that causes
all cows in the West
to eat maize in the coming years,
is suicide.
That is not true,
stop saying that, François.
How would you do it? Someone from Senegal
asks to intervene on ground nuts
because they receive soy oil from Brazil,
what can you do about it?
PRESS ROOM WITH BOVE AND LOUAIL
JOSE BOVE WITH JOURNALIST
SVO – José Bové
Farmer leader Confédération Paysanne
We export 5 million hectares of cereals
and import 85 percent of
our plant proteins.
- Feed your own cows with
your own cereals, is that what you mean?
Yes.
SENEGAL
THE SOY AND MILK CIRCLE FROM BRAZIL OVER FRANCE TO SENEGAL
ON IMAGES AND MUSIC
Soy fields / soy harvest / soy feed French cow / milking robot / milk advertisement . milk powder in glass of milk, ending on milk and bread stands.
SVO - Senegal
COMMENTARY (on milk powder in glass)
In the current global agriculture, the milk and cereal overproduction is shipped to Africa. Senegalese farmers are not happy with the new eating habits.
NDIOGOU FALL in sorghum field
SVO – Ndiogou Fall
Farmer leader Roppa
This is my sorghum field,
this is the food for my family.
PLAYING CHILDREN
COMMENTARY (on Ndiogou walking in)
Lunch time. No French bread for Ndiogou and his family.
NDIOGOU FALL with lach
This is ‘lach’, like we say it over here,
the traditional meal based on
sorghum and milk.
But it is more and more substituted in
eating habits by
French bread, coffee en foreign milk powder.
COMMENTARY
This way, the Senegalese farmer loses his market. Ndiogou wants the government to stimulate a local food industry.
NDIOGOU FALL in sorghum field
Not everybody can continue to work as a farmer,
my children won’t be farmers.
If in the town of Mékhé or in my village nearby there
would be a small factory to make couscous
from sorghum, some of the youngsters
could find a job there,
in stead of leaving for Spain in boats.
LARGE HERDS OF COWS AND SHEEP
COMMENTARY (3rd shot)
The herds in the North and East of the country are large, the profits less big. (The profits don’t keep up.)
AWA DIALLO AND DIOUMOUROUK KA WITH COWS
AWA DIALLO with cows in Sahel
COMMENTARY
Awa Diallo owns milk cows and leads the organisation of female cowherds, counting 20.000 members.
SVO – Awa Diallo
Farmer leader Dinfel
The Senegalese government has
no cattle breeding policy,
while cattle breeding has an
important place in our economy
and in food security of
the population.
Even in case of overproduction,
we don’t manage to sell our milk.
COMMENTARY
DIOUMOUROUK KA with cows in Sahel
SVO – Dioumourouk Ka
People like Awa Diallo
are really concerned about our wellbeing.
They organize the sales of our milk,
a large source of hope for us.
We don’t want to be poor cattle breeders
with filthy clothes.
We want people to say about cattle breeders,
there you have the rich people, with a Pajero 4x4,
with beautiful houses and women,
so that one immediately says: they are the richest.
PROCESSING OF MILK
COMMENTARY (on tap that is opening)
The female cowherds decided to take the processing and sales of their milk into own hands.
THERMOMETER IN MILK
AMINATA DIAKITE GUEYE
SVO – Aminata Diakité Gueye
When the milk enters, it is filtered
and pasteurized.
AWA DIALLO with team of processors
SVO – Awa Diallo
Farmer leader Dinfel
The protocol is signed,
from the eight, they will
deliver us 5.000 litres a week.
This enables us to go to the super markets.
AMINATA DIAKITE GUEYE
We produce 400 to 600 litres a day.
We can go up to 800 / 850 a day.
MILK STAND DAKAR (after four or five shots)
For the sales of curdled milk, the female cowherds have already opened 21 stands in the streets of the capital Dakar.
THIOUKEL SOW vendor stand
SVO – Thioukel Sow
We sell couscous
with fresh milk.
people buy milk over here because it’s
hygienic and well situated.
AWA DIALLO in stand
SVO – Awa Diallo
Farmer leader Dinfel
Every day, she sells 40 to 50 litres.
We deliver the milk and see she
has a good shop.
Her sales are increasing and
sometimes she calls at noon for more milk.
CLIENT AT OTHER MILK STAND
I’ve tasted the milk
and it is excellent.
It’s more tasteful than the milk
I used to buy.
AWA DIALLO SKYPEND
Friday it is a large women day
‘Africa can feed itself’,
We invited authorities, ministers,
parliament, NGO’s.
HONG KONG
PREPARATION ACTION IN CONGRESS PALACE
SVO – Hong Kong
GSM SCENE WITH TORTELLI 8*3312
English
ALTEMIR TORTELLI
Our friends of
Roppa and George Naylor
propose to hold a
demonstration inside.
RENE LOUAIL
We have to agree on the message
we spread.
NDIOGOU FALL
We do both,
today the symbolical action,
and later we think on a
common platform of demands.
THE ACTION
SOUND OF LOUD WHISTLES
ALTEMIR TORTELLI gives an interview
SVO – Altemir Tortelli
Farmer leader Fetraf
When the import taxes
decrease to less than 10 percent,
we risk that in Brazil one million
families will disappear from the milk production.
We have (a lot) more in common with farmers in
Africa or Asia than with our agro-industry.
SALIOU SARR at action
SVO – Saliou Sarr
Farmer leader CNCR-Senegal
We need other instruments.
Our suggestions are simple:
protection at regional level,
control the offer at international
level and provide fair prices.
We don’t want support or subsidies,
we want to live from our work.
NIGHT HONG KONG IN CONFERENCE BUILDING
3. THERE ARE OTHER ALTERNATIVES
BRAZIL
NIGHT THE COOPERATIVE MARKET AND SHOP of Erechim
SVO - Brazil
ALINE ANDREOLA
SVO – Aline Andreola
We bake bread for the market
and sell fruit.
CLAIRTON BALEN
SVO – Clairton Balen
We are independent. If there is a market
crisis in the US or somewhere else
this doesn’t trouble us,
we depend on our local clients.
ALINE ANDREOLA
We want to continue with the market
because it generates an income
and helps a lot.
ALTEMIR TORTELLI at the market
SVO – Altemir Tortelli
Farmer leader Fetraf
We have always produced food, but
the profit went to intermediaries,
traders and super market chains.
We learned we make more by
creating an added value and by selling
directly to consumers.
We offer a quality product
to our consumers.
CLAIRTON BALEN
You don’t understand what this means for us.
In the past, there was no money to throw a party,
now we sometimes lack the time to go
to a party, because we work hard.
CLIENT AT THE MARKET
This is home made bread,
nice and delicious.
The cheese is lovely.
I buy natural and healthy products,
because it’s close to home and
because it is a good product.
I always come to shop.
ALTEMIR TORTELLI at the market
The client doesn’t only see the packing,
but also the person behind the product.
THE COOPERATIVE SHOP
MARLENE PASQUALE for the cooperative shop
SVO – Marlene Pasquale
Cooperation Nossa Terra
Our consumer and farmer cooperation
Nossa terra exists 5 years.
For some family processing companies
this is the main vending point.
The cooperation has some
240 members, producers and
consumers.
We established this relation so that
the consumer of the town can give his
opinion on quality and preferences.
THE CREDIT COOPERATION CRESOL
CLAIRTON COMES TO BRING IN MONEY
COMMENTARY (read after 2”)
The growing farm movement is extending with their own credit cooperation Cresol.
CLAIRTON BALEN
SVO – Clairton Balen
I put the money I made on the Saturday market
into my account.
ANTENOR PERTILLE
SVO – Antenor Pertille
Credit cooperation Cresol
Cresol is created to support family
agriculture through projects such as
construction of houses in the countryside
and a bank account for farmers, without costs.
Before, they had no access to banks.
COMMENTARY (read almost immediately)
It’s even almost more important that farmers can borrow money from their credit cooperation …
PAOLO BALEN
SVO – Paolo Balen
I came to check the repayment for a
loan I have to repay, 545 euros,
in order to prepare myself to
find the money.
FROM SYNDICATE TO MOVEMENT– Brazilian mobilisation for education
SHOUT SLOGAN and / or CHANT
COMMENTARY (read after 2”)
A strong farmer movement goes beyond agriculture and economy. It wants a better society with higher education in the own region.
ALTEMIR TORTELLI on stage
SVO – Altemir Tortelli
Farmer leader Fetraf
We cannot accept that
education is a gift,
or a favour.
The government has to guarantee
quality education for everybody.
COMMENTARY (after 2”)
Fetraf as a farmer syndicate is elaborating economic alternatives with its cooperations and as a movement it fights for a better government policy on education or health care.
CORLAC
TASTE CHEESE AT CORLAC
This parmesan cheese is crowned
the second best cheese of Brazil.
COMMENTARY (read after 2”)
The farmer movement of the South of Brazil has also industrial importance. Their cooperation CORLAC daily collects 200.000 litres of milk and manages some large milk factories.
GERVASIO PLUCINSKI in front of terminal
SVO – Gervasio Plucinski
Corlac
This factory daily processes
80.000 litres of milk.
We collect the milk of
6.000 family farmers.
GERVASIO PLUCINSKI at the entrance
The government wanted to privatise the company
and sell it to a multinational.
We, family farmers,
organised ourselves
and took the broke company
in own hands.
This way, we were able to prevent
another company to fall in the hands
of a large multinational.
COMMENTARY (read on shot cheese carriers)
Corlac makes more than 10 types of cheese, different kinds of milk, cream, in total almost fifty products.
GERVASIO PLUCINSKI speaking about products in front of fridge
The largest challenge is to
stay competitive on the market
without expelling small farmers.
FRANCE
IMAGE AGRO-INDUSTRY IN FRANCE
SVO: France
RENE LOUAIL AT THE TABLE AFTER EATING PANCAKES
RENE LOUAIL
SVO – René Louail
Farmer leader Confédération Paysanne
It is a sad thing that
agricultural cooperations are derailed.
More than half of them have become multinationals,
that cannot be controlled,
they are only a cooperation on paper,
the farmers in their board of directors
are ghost farmers.
ZU COOP ATTENDS TO HIS COWS
RENE LOUAIL
We have to prevent them from getting to large,
otherwise, we cannot control them anymore.
BRIN D’ HERBE
MARIE-BEATRICE CAILLARD with the chickens
SVO – Marie-Béatrice Caillard
More than once a day
I collect eggs.
Our farm of 25 hectares has
laying hens as a main activity.
YVES CAILLARD with apple juice
SVO – Yves Caillard
We bring it at 80°,
we bottle it, very hot,
and cap it.
This is how we make apple juice.
STICKING LABEL ON BOTTLE
YVES CAILLARD with apple juice
TAKING THE APPLE JUICE TO THE SHOP
We opened our shop
in September 98.
CLIENTS
MARIE-BEATRICE CAILLARD in the shop
SVO – Marie-Béatrice Caillard
Brin d’Herbe is a shop
of farmers,
20 producers, in total 50 persons
who work on farms.
Our turnover amounts to more than 1 million euro
for the two shops.
We have approximately 350 clients
each week and in each shop.
CLIENT 1 – man
The product comes directly
from producer to consumer,
the products are fresh
and we are actually benefiting.
CLIENT 2 – female
I have all my vegetables
for the whole week,
and my chat at the cashpoint.
YVES CAILLARD WITH CLIENTS AT THE CASHPOINT
MARIE-BEATRICE CAILLARD in the shop
We have had some bad years
because we were selling our products
at a very low price
while they are quality products.
Since we are selling directly,
we recovered and
are living much better.
SENEGAL
CAMPAIGN AFRIQUE NOURRICIERE – AFRICA CAN FEED ITSELF
SVO - Senegal
PLACING CHAIRS
AWA DIALLO
SVO – Awa Diallo
Farmer leader Dinfel
All the chairs from the meeting room are
outside? That will not be enough.
PREPARATION FISH DISH in Grand Dakar
MAMELISSA NIANG
SVO – Mamelissa Niang
This is our contribution to
Africa can feed itself to show
the diversity of the Senegalese kitchen.
These are our onions,
the fish is caught here,
the oil is coming from our factories,
everything comes from here.
This way, we can conquer our
food sovereignty.
CAMPAIGN AFRIQUE NOURRICIERE
AWA DIALLO during speech (text starts at shot from behind of Awa Diallo)
I personally salute all of you.
SITTING PUBLIC AND AWA DIALLO STANDING during speech
AWA DIALLO
SVO – Awa Diallo
Farmer leader Dinfel
Africa can feed itself was launched by
our West African umbrella ROPPA.
We want to advertise
on food products
that we cultivate on our land.
We want the Senegalese
to eat what the farmers grow and breed.
APPLAUDING PUBLIC
HONG KONG
ONE CAN LAUGH EVERY ONCE AND A WHILE
SVO – Hong Kong
NDIOGOU FALL in computer room
SVO – Ndiogou Fall
Farmer leader Roppa
Something new happened here.
The farmers found each other and
for the first time they spoke with one voice.
RENE LOUAIL in reception hall
SVO – René Louail
Farmer leader Confédération Paysanne
Europe and the World Trade Organisation
sell the agriculture for the services,
this is unacceptable because it will
translate into a considerable
delocalisation of the agricultural
and food production from Europe.
LARGE PRESS CONFERENCE
JAPANESE FARMER LEADER SPEAKING AND MAKING GESTURES
SVO -
I have the income of a small farmer.
Before the World Trade Organisation,
I had a high revenue.
GEORGE NAYLOR (National Family Farm Coalition – NFFC, US)
SVO – George Naylor
National Family Farm Coalition - US
With low prices, the only way to react is
to increase production,
we all try it, and at the end, we
all get a lower price.
Like every country, we need
food sovereignty
in order to execute our own
agricultural policy
without being undermined by
cheap imports.
ALTEMIR TORTELLI on PC
SVO – Altemir Tortelli
Farmer leader Fetraf
We defend the right on
protectionism,
that enables our government to
protect markets.
NDIOGOU FALL on PC
We claim the right to
protect ourselves and
to have an agriculture that
rewards the work of farmers.
SALIOU SARR AFTER PRESS CONFERENCE
SVO – Saliou Sarr
Farmer leader CNCR-Senegal
These are farmers of
the whole world,
from the US, Brazil, Africa, the European Union, Japan and Norway,
they gathered to say:
we want family agriculture,
we want to feed our people,
we want to live from our work.
SENEGAL
OPENING SENEGALESE DISHES ON AFRIQUE NOURRICIERE
AWA DIALLO during interview at the table
SVO – Awa Diallo
Farmer leader Dinfel
There are millions of hectares of land
we can cultivate;
it’s a pity farmers don’t have the means to use this land
because of a lack of agricultural policy.
AFRIQUE NOURRICIERE
AWA DIALLO interviewed during dinner
You heard the representative speaking, he asks to
hold a similar day in parliament to imply the entire government.
I am sure that if we continue, we can really influence the government.
MUSIC
CREDIT TITLES ON DIFFERENT IMAGES AND FIGURES
A documentary of Dirk Barrez / Global Society
Image and sound - Koen Geurts
Editing and mixing - Gert Van den Cruijce
A production of Vredeseilanden, CSA, Oxfam Solidarity, Wervel, RAD, CPE, Acord
with special thanks to Anne-Laure Cadji, Gert Engelen, Souleymane Ndiaye, Agnes Vercauteren, Greenpeace
with support of the European Commission
THE FINAL IMAGE IS A GLASS OF MILK THAT IS FILLING
Cow 80 has a problem
the battle between two agricultural models
or
COW 80 HAS A PROBLEM
farmer against agro-industry
SENEGAL - NDIOGOU FALL ON THE FIELD
NDIOGOU FALL AT SQUARE IN HONG KONG
SVO – Ndiogou Fall
Farmer leader Roppa
The vast majority of farmers
in the world are opposed to WTO rules.
FRANCE - RENE LOUAIL WITH HIS SHEEP
RENE LOUAIL AT SQUARE IN HONG KONG
SVO – René Louail
Farmer leader Confédération Paysanne
We can only change something
by building strong alliances
with farmers in the South.
BRAZIL - ALTEMIR TORTELLI MILKING A COW
ALTEMIR TORTELLI AT MANIFESTATION IN HONG KONG
SVO – Altemir Tortelli
Farmer leader Fetraf
There is a fight between
two agricultural models.
The agro-industry on one side
and on the other side the model we defend,
in which the farmer and his family are
central, in which farmers produce
food for themselves and
especially for Brazilians.
TWO MODELS ARE SHOWN / MUSIC
1. PRAISE OF FOLLY
BRAZIL
SVO – Brazil
COMINETTI ABANDONED VILLAGE
WALTER COMINETTI
SVO – Walter Cominetti
In the past, the entire river bank was inhabited.
This parish counted 52 families,
this community had
200 inhabitants.
When the land didn’t yield anymore,
because of soil deterioration and erosion,
young people left for town
to work in large companies like
Sadia, Cooper Alfa, Aurora in Chapecó.
AERIAL VIEW BURNING FOREST
COMMENTARY on second shot
Large scale agriculture is progressing everywhere in Brazil.
Everything has to give way, forests, nature.
FROM FORESTS TO ENDLESS FIELDS
COMMENTARY (on panorama)
In this country, there is no place for people, almost everybody has to move, to towns or elsewhere.
ADAMIR BATISTELLA WITH THRESHER
SVO – Adamir Batistella
In our farm, we grow cereals,
maize and soy.
We cultivate 430 hectares.
Almost all the small farmers in this area
have sold their farm
to buy land in
Mato Grosso.
Until three years ago we had a
good yield.
We had the best profits ever and as far as I
was concerned, this situation could last forever.
Then production costs increased
and the soy price decreased.
We had two years of drought
and the prices kept dropping year after year.
The soy price is fixed at
the cereal market of Chicago.
I don’t really understand it, but the price is fixed
over there in dollars.
SPRAYING AIRPLANE: SMALL FARM IN THE MIDDLE OF LARGE FARMS
COMMENTARY (read after 1”)
Even if large landowners loose money with soy, the largest losers of the non-ecological agro-industry are the environment and small scale family farmers.
NADIA DEMBOSKI
SVO – Nadia Demboski
We wanted to produce milk
in an ecological way.
Our biggest concern was to separate
our land from that of large companies who
spray and poison our production.
This way our animal feed and our milk were polluted.
The large company starts here. Our terrain
ends where the maize is drier.
From there on, airplanes spray
toxic substances.
TORTELLI FARM IN THE MIST
ALTEMIR TORTELLI
SVO – Altemir Tortelli
Farmer leader Fetraf
This upper part is for fruit trees.
A STROLL WITH THE COWS
COMMENTARY (read after 1”)
Family agriculture has difficulties to survive, admits Altemir Tortelli, who besides being a farmer leader, is also a farmer with plans for the future.
ALTEMIR TORTELLI
This is already a heifer
from our milk cows,
the first animal
born on the farm.
ALTEMIR TORTELLI
This company has no pollution.
There are no chemical products.
LARGE LANDOWNER / HARVESTED SOY IN THRESHER
COMMENTARY (begin on shot large landowner)
In 2005, Brazil exported twenty million tons of soy to Europe.
(In 2005, the EU imported 39 million tons of soy: 51% from Brazil.)
FRANCE
LARGE SCALE CATTLE FARMER
SVO - FRANCE
COMMENTARY (read on second shot)
Gilles Bedel owns a farm with 300 hectares, with among other things 130 cows, yearly producing 1.1 million litres of milk.
GILLES BEDEL
SVO – Gilles Bedel
The cows are fed once a day,
in the morning.
In France, we lack proteins.
The proteins are mainly coming from
Brazilian soy.
At first we had ecological restraints
that increased our production costs,
now we have to face the market liberalisation.
Every 10, 15 years,
you have to reflect and adjust.
SMALL SCALE FARMER
JOSEPH TEMPLIER OUT FOR A WALK
SVO – Joseph Templier
That is the highest point
of the Côtes d’Armor, 339 meters.
TV and radio antenna, and over there
the wind mills, since the 15th of December.
This is exactly what we stand for,
alternative energy, inexhaustible.
JOSEPH TEMPLIER IN THE FIELD (read almost immediately)
COMMENTARY
The farm of Joseph Templier has a surface of 42 hectares and 25 cows that yearly produce 115.000 litres of milk.
JOSEPH TEMPLIER
We plant a diversified
flora in the pasture,
and there is also the natural flora
one can see here.
This provides a very varied flora and balanced animal feed.
JOSEPH TEMPLIER milking cows
All my animal feed comes from the farm,
except in times of drought, that occur now and then.
JOSEPH TEMPLIER in the cowshed
For more than 15 years we have been
producing milk with only grass,
no foreign proteins,
no soy from Latin America, the US or Canada.
GILLES BEDEL in the large shed
SVO – Gilles Bedel
Of course there is the fall of
market prices
that will even further decrease our margins.
For me, the strategy is simple,
intensify the production even more,
a constant increase in productivity
of cows and extension of the farm.
JOSEPH TEMPLIER
SVO – Joseph Templier
No, intensification is no solution.
The World Trade Organisation and the European
agricultural policy are completely opposed to
biological or sustainable agriculture.
We only receive 50 euros
of subsidies per hectare,
while some farmers
receive 400 euro per hectare.
MILK ROBOTS
JEAN-FRANCOIS CORDON IN THE SHED
SVO – Jean-François Cordon
This cow is waiting
until the other one leaves,
then she will enter …
you’ll see the connection of
the udders.
COMMENTARY (read 2” after the quote)
This European subsidy systems leads to more and more production from large farmers, more and more automation.
One robot automatically milks 50 cows.
JEAN-FRANCOIS CORDON IN HIS OFFICE
This system is very convenient,
but more supervision is required.
There, a failure,
cow nr. 80 has a problem.
RENE LOUAIL WITH HIS SHEEP
SVO – René Louail
Farmer leader Confédération Paysanne
I have a farm of 38 hectares,
less than the average
of 50 hectares.
I have 180 sheep for meat and three
poultry houses for chickens with label.
RENE LOUAIL IN A PHONE CONVERSATION
Hello Dominique…
we of the Confédération Paysanne
support the principle of
fair trade.
COMMENTARY
Tonight, René is participating in a debate on fair trade. He will also formulate his criticism on the European agricultural policy.
RENE LOUAIL makes batter for Breton pancakes
RENE LOUAIL
The support, essential for the agriculture, is now
hogged by 20 % of the European farmers
who use them to compete with and to
starve farmers in the South.
The agricultural support has to be better divided.
DEBATE IN MUZILLAC
RENE LOUAIL during the debate
The market constantly
brings down the prices
and our only answer is
more and more production.
Do you think it’s normal we
continue to subsidize overproduction
in Europe when this implies
the disappearance
of farmers in the East, in Africa
or elsewhere?
And what do they say?
You, European and American farmers,
stop exporting your overproduction,
with the help of subsidies,
because this will kill us.
HONG KONG WTO
FARMER LEADERS IN HONG KONG
SVO – Hong Kong
COMMENTARY
In Hong Kong, the World Trade Organisation is meeting. These meetings are no longer the exclusive work area of diplomats and industrial lobbyers.
Farmers have also found the way to defend their interests.
The past years they met at the WTO meetings and held their own preparatory meetings.
PRESS CONFERENCE WITH FIRST LOUAIL ON SCREEN
RENE LOUAIL
SVO – René Louail
Confédération Paysanne
In the world, 800 million
persons are underfed.
Every year, 50 million farmers quit because
the economic rules force them to.
ALTEMIR TORTELLI
SVO – Altemir Tortelli
Fetraf
The liberalisation of agricultural trade and
the absence of regulation
cause a lot of damage in the world:
hunger, unemployment,
inequality, poverty.
GEORGE NAYLOR (NFFC)
SVO – George Naylor
National Family Farm Coalition - US
You have to understand that subsidies
are a part of the WTO process
because the US agricultural economy
is not able to function without subsidies
as long as nobody knows how low
the agricultural prices can drop.
NDIOGOU EATING IN HONG KONG
COMMENTARY (on the second shot)
The Senegalese Ndiogou Fall is also in Hong Kong. He leads the West African farmer organisation Roppa.
SENEGAL
FARM NDIOGOU FALL
SVO – Senegal
NDIOGOU FALL with his cows
NDIOGOU FALL
SVO – Ndiogou Fall
Farmer leader Roppa
Calves, bull, milk cows,
ten animals in total.
COMMENTARY (on second shot)
On his own farm, Ndiogou feels the liberalisation of the
agricultural markets.
NDIOGOU FALL
The largest problem is the competition
of multinationals in the milk sales.
I don’t have a lot of milk,
less than 100 litres a day.
But even then, I sometimes have
problems to sell on the local market.
In every shop you can find bags of milk powder
from Europe or somewhere else.
These bags don’t even cost
8 eurocent per litre.
If we cannot sell at 50 cent
per litre, we don’t cover the costs.
It is not my fault or that of the consumers,
it is our national agricultural policy
that has to change.
SHOP KEEPER TAKES MILK POWDER IN SHOP
HENRIETTE SOW FILLS BAG WITH MILK POWDER
HENRIETTE SOW
SVO – Henriette Sow
This is milk powder
from the Netherlands,
it is not the same as
Senegalese milk.
This is how you make it.
One bag costs 8 eurocent.
There are different types of milk powder,
coffee milk, Vitalait, white, such as this powder,
this is with banana flavour …
this is with mint.
PREPARING MILK IN THE SHOP
HENRIETTE SOW
We add some water,
a bit of salt …
and five hours later it becomes
like this milk.
MILK SHOP DAKAR
COMMENTARY (read on milk shop Dakar)
Senegal imports twice the quantity of milk products that it produces and four fifth comes from Europe.
Products based on milk powder are sold everywhere.
KALIDOU THIERNO BA
SVO – Kalidou Thierno Ba
In Dakar, we have more
than 500 vending points,
and even more in the interior,
in the 11 regions of Senegal.
AT NDIOGOU FALL’S HOUSE / FATOU NDOYE SELLS FRESH MILK
COMMENTARY (begin on girl after 2”)
At home, Ndiogou Fall’s wife also sells milk // fresh milk.
FATOU NDOYE
SVO – Fatou Ndoye
The milk comes from my cows.
I bought the cows
because people need
fresh milk.
When at night I milk the cows,
the clients come and wake me in the morning
for their curdled milk.
People adore this milk,
I deliver it and
they pay me at the end of the month.
FARM NDIOGOU FALL
NDIOGOU FALL
SVO – Ndiogou Fall
Farmer leader Roppa
The problem of the commercialisation of
my milk is closely linked to the
WTO agreements that preach the
liberalisation of the economy
and that enter us in competition with
foreign countries.
This cannot function. Europe has subsidies,
we receive nothing from our state,
for everything you see here,
there are no subsidies.
If I have to compete with Europe
through free trade agreements,
this will kill my farm.
This is why we cannot accept this system.
Therefore, we ask our ministers to
stop this liberalisation at
national, regional and international level.
MANIFESTATION DAKAR
COMMENTARY (start reading after 4”, the car is passed)
In order to enforce their claims, the Senegalese farmer organisations are mobilizing in the large stadium of Dakar. Ndiogou addresses the 30.000 attendants.
NDIOGOU FALL
We are opposed
to every policy
that doesn’t give priority
to farmers.
SHOT OF THE PUBLIC
NDIOGOU FALL
Onions from the Netherlands and France
are stopping our farmers from selling.
Each year farmers quit because
of this competition and migrate.
HONG KONG
MANIFESTATION
SVO – Hong Kong
NDIOGOU FALL
SVO – Ndiogou Fall
Farmer leader Roppa
Agriculture is something completely different
than cars, it is a vital
sector that doesn’t belong in
the World Trade Organisation.
ALTEMIR TORTELLI AT MANIFESTATION
SVO – Altemir Tortelli
Farmer leader Fetraf
It is a shame the Brazilian
government policy gives priority
to the export model.
It is necessary to fight this battle
on two fronts:
at the negotiation table
and through manifestations in the streets.
2. CHICKEN TRAFFIC OR OWN WAY
BRAZIL
SADIA TRUCKS FROM NIGHT TO DAY
SVO – Brazil
COMMENTARY (second shot)
In Chapecó, South Brazil, Sadía and other agro-industrial enterprises are working at full speed, day and night.
ALTEMIR TORTELLI at Sadia in Chapecó
SVO – Altemir Tortelli
Farmer leader Fetraf
Hundreds and hundreds of trucks are
driving on Brazilian highways
to transport the production
of our agricultural companies.
This truck that arrives
transports chickens and turkeys
that after processing are sold
in supermarkets throughout Brazil.
PAOLO AND MARCIA BALEN ON THEIR CHICKEN FARM
COMMENTARY (read on INT)
Paolo Balen and his wife Marcia are producing for themselves and for the local market. But they are mainly depending on the agro-industry. They breed chickens for export.
MARCIA BALEN
SVO – Marcia Balen
We don’t eat them.
These chickens contain
a lot of chemicals,
grow hormones. After only 40 to 45
days, they weigh 3.5 kg.
PAOLO BALEN
SVO – Paolo Balen
We work for a large agro-industrial company, an integrator.
They provide the chickens, feed
and technical support.
We deliver the labour, installations and
everything that is necessary to breed chickens.
Our revenue decreases year after year.
ALTEMIR TORTELLI at Sadia in Chapecó
In reality, we are employees
without a contract.
The integrated pig breeders,
chicken farmers and other farmers
have an income, but this is
not in proportion with the
income of large companies
that control the entire process.
FARM CLAIRTON AND ROSANGELA BALEN processing cheese
alternative
CLAIRTON BALEN
SVO – Clairton Balen
We started in 2002,
we were on the market and
saw that nobody sold cheese.
You control everything:
production, processing and sales.
You are independent, a very good thing.
COMMENTARY (after end quote and end shot)
Clairton is Paolo’s brother. He got fed up with the dependence on cereal production. (wait for Rosangela) Together with his wife Rosangela, they chose another way.
ROSANGELA BALEN
SVO – Rosangela Balen
I am cutting,
slowly,
until we have equal small pieces.
CLAIRTON BALEN
If we would sell the milk,
we’d receive a maximum of 15 / 16 eurocent.
With the processing into cheese,
we receive almost 30 eurocent.
CHICKEN FARM PAOLO AND MARCIA BALEN
PAOLO BALEN
SVO – Paolo Balen
Production for the local market
guarantees our income.
Export production can cause
more difficulties.
MARCIA BALEN
SVO – Marcia Balen
The problem is the bird flu,
which is a mayor concern.
PAOLO BALEN
The company claims new investments,
which are very expensive.
Moreover, the sales of chicken meat
are stopped,
so it are risk investments.
ALTEMIR TORTELLI at Sadía in Chapecó
ALTEMIR TORTELLI
We are merely providers of raw materials.
If we are useful and adapt to
the model and technologies, we are integrated.
If this is no longer the case, we are excluded.
This is the logic, the basis of empires
such as Sadia and many other agro-industries.
CHEESE PRODUCTION FARM CLAIRTON AND ROSANGELA BALEN
ROSANGELA
SVO – Rosangela Balen
In the past, I worked on the land,
very hard labour.
I love my actual work, because under the
hot sun of more than 30°,
from the morning to the night
and without any result,
we never had money.
Now, we have money coming in every week.
CLAIRTON BALEN
SVO – Clairton Balen
Compared to when we cultivated cereals
we are gaining in 3 months
what we earned in one year
and with 90 percent less risk.
CHICKEN FARM PAOLO AND MARCIA BALEN
PAOLO BALEN
We are set aside, because we don’t have
anything to say, we can only nod.
If the investments are too high, we are thinking
about stopping, maybe we’ll buy some more cows.
ALTEMIR TORTELLI (at Paolo’s and Marcia’s)
ALTEMIR TORTELLI
SVO – Altemir Tortelli
Farmer leader Fetraf
The production is increasing, but with less families
and hundreds of thousands of people are excluded.
We are questioning this model.
Our alternative is that farmers
organise production, processing and sales.
FRANCE
FARM IN FRANCE
RENE LOUAIL in poultry house
SVO - France
RENE LOUAIL
SVO – René Louail
Farmer leader Confédération Paysanne
These are slow
growing chickens.
In the agro-industry a chicken of 1.5 kilo
is bred in 40 to 42 days.
These will weigh 2 kilos after
80 to 90 days.
They are mainly destined
for the market of quality agriculture,
the biological sector and other labels
of controlled origin.
It is a pity that our contracts with
industrials are yielding
less and less. The costs increase
and prices decrease.
We have to step out of this
industrial system.
Most industrials also control the labels.
This isn’t normal.
We have to make sure that labelled products
end up in a completely independent circuit.
RENE LOUAIL bakes Breton pancakes
RENE LOUAIL
Here you have a Breton pancake.
COMMENTARY
The chicken industry has also globalized. Next to more independence for farmers, René sees another solution.
A profitable minimum price prevents
that one buys chickens in Brazil
to break the prices here.
That is what we have to stop.
COMMENTARY
Every year, Europe imports for almost 0.5 billion euros of Brazilian chickens.
EGG AND CHEESE ON PANCAKE
Less intermediaries you have,
less parasites you have,
companies that as speculators,
by sticking one label,
make as much or more than with
three months of work to breed a chicken.
PIERRE-YVES AIGNEL PICKS GRASS IN THE PASTURE
SVO – Pierre-Yves Aignel
We defend sustainable agriculture.
We always keep in mind the balance
between three dimensions,
the economic, it is unavoidable,
the ecological as a permanent concern,
and a social function to the extent
that we want to share the
production means in stead of concentrating
them and that we want to enable as much farmers
as possible to lead a decent life
from their work.
JOSEPH TEMPLIER IN PASTURE
SVO – Joseph Templier
Biological or sustainable agriculture
has a future to the extent that
producers can find their way
to consumers.
FAMILY TEMPLIER AT THE TABLE
COMMENTARY (read on second shot)
Dinner time at the Templier family where the wife does the bookkeeping.
MARYSE TEMPLIER AT DESK
SVO – Maryse Templier
This will be the best year
in four.
We had some difficult years
due to the low milk price.
The future depends on consumers
that do their shopping.
It is a political act,
not everybody realises that.
JOSEPH TEMPLIER IN CAR
We’re going to attend a meeting
of a consumer association.
PIERRE-YVES AIGNEL in car
JOSEPH IN CAR
They founded the association Voisins de Paniers
to purchase quality products
from biological and sustainable agriculture.
VOISINS PANIERS
COMMENTARY
In stead of selling his milk, Pierre-Yves prefers to process it in own management into better paid products. He sells these products through Voisins de Paniers.
PIERRE-YVES AIGNEL in front of fridge
SVO – Pierre-Yves Aignel
Here you have my products.
We have eight products.
There is a natural yoghurt,
this is the basis.
To this natural yoghurt, we add
real jam.
JULIE DUPETITPRE
SVO – Julie Dupetitpré
Voisins de Paniers
There are some 200 members and we deliver
approximately 80 baskets a week.
Some fifty producers are
collaborating with us.
We guarantee a proper revenue
for their work.
CLIENT 1
I am apposed to super markets.
Here I find what I like because.
You know who the producers are.
PIERRE-YVES AIGNEL
The consumers benefit and the farmer
delivers directly to his neighbour,
and wants to work even better.
CLIENT 2
Outstanding.
Excellent tea, very good tea.
And this way, you stimulate
local producers.
CLIENT 2
Civilians have to take their own
matters in hands
and co-develop this alternative
to supermarkets
because politics don’t provide a
balance between both systems.
HONG KONG
EXTERNAL VIEW PALACE OF CONGRESS / IMAGE PRESS CONFERENCE
SVO – Hong Kong
COMMENTARY (read on the second shot = INT)
In the World Trade Organisation, politicians don’t reach an agreement. EU commissioner Mandelsson gives a press conference.
PC WITH MANDELSSON
If we talk about agriculture,
it are not the developing countries
but the large export countries
that have exaggerated demands.
We committed ourselves to completely
abolish our export subsidies.
Last year, the US only promised reforms and
measures on food aid.
BOVE LISTENING TO MANDELSSON
BRAZILIAN TRADE MINISTER ON LARGE SCREEN
The problem is that, whatever Europe says,
the credibility is gone.
ALTEMIR TORTELLI interview by Canal Plus
SVO – Altemir Tortelli
Farmer leader Fetraf
The new political relations in the WTO and the international trade debate are important.
Today, decisions are no longer taken
between the US and EU.
PRESS CONFERENCE WITH BRAZIL, INDIA,…
COMMENTARY
Countries like India and Brazil are from now on co-deciding on world markets.
FRENCH FARMERS IN A BIG DISCUSSION
COMMENTARY
The opening of the agricultural markets also leads to differences of opinion among farmers. It is not easy to reach common points of view.
FRENCH FARMER LEADERS IN DISCUSSION
Damn.
It is impossible to discuss with you.
Are you listening to what I say?
We are committing suicide.
A European agricultural policy that causes
all cows in the West
to eat maize in the coming years,
is suicide.
That is not true,
stop saying that, François.
How would you do it? Someone from Senegal
asks to intervene on ground nuts
because they receive soy oil from Brazil,
what can you do about it?
PRESS ROOM WITH BOVE AND LOUAIL
JOSE BOVE WITH JOURNALIST
SVO – José Bové
Farmer leader Confédération Paysanne
We export 5 million hectares of cereals
and import 85 percent of
our plant proteins.
- Feed your own cows with
your own cereals, is that what you mean?
Yes.
SENEGAL
THE SOY AND MILK CIRCLE FROM BRAZIL OVER FRANCE TO SENEGAL
ON IMAGES AND MUSIC
Soy fields / soy harvest / soy feed French cow / milking robot / milk advertisement . milk powder in glass of milk, ending on milk and bread stands.
SVO - Senegal
COMMENTARY (on milk powder in glass)
In the current global agriculture, the milk and cereal overproduction is shipped to Africa. Senegalese farmers are not happy with the new eating habits.
NDIOGOU FALL in sorghum field
SVO – Ndiogou Fall
Farmer leader Roppa
This is my sorghum field,
this is the food for my family.
PLAYING CHILDREN
COMMENTARY (on Ndiogou walking in)
Lunch time. No French bread for Ndiogou and his family.
NDIOGOU FALL with lach
This is ‘lach’, like we say it over here,
the traditional meal based on
sorghum and milk.
But it is more and more substituted in
eating habits by
French bread, coffee en foreign milk powder.
COMMENTARY
This way, the Senegalese farmer loses his market. Ndiogou wants the government to stimulate a local food industry.
NDIOGOU FALL in sorghum field
Not everybody can continue to work as a farmer,
my children won’t be farmers.
If in the town of Mékhé or in my village nearby there
would be a small factory to make couscous
from sorghum, some of the youngsters
could find a job there,
in stead of leaving for Spain in boats.
LARGE HERDS OF COWS AND SHEEP
COMMENTARY (3rd shot)
The herds in the North and East of the country are large, the profits less big. (The profits don’t keep up.)
AWA DIALLO AND DIOUMOUROUK KA WITH COWS
AWA DIALLO with cows in Sahel
COMMENTARY
Awa Diallo owns milk cows and leads the organisation of female cowherds, counting 20.000 members.
SVO – Awa Diallo
Farmer leader Dinfel
The Senegalese government has
no cattle breeding policy,
while cattle breeding has an
important place in our economy
and in food security of
the population.
Even in case of overproduction,
we don’t manage to sell our milk.
COMMENTARY
DIOUMOUROUK KA with cows in Sahel
SVO – Dioumourouk Ka
People like Awa Diallo
are really concerned about our wellbeing.
They organize the sales of our milk,
a large source of hope for us.
We don’t want to be poor cattle breeders
with filthy clothes.
We want people to say about cattle breeders,
there you have the rich people, with a Pajero 4x4,
with beautiful houses and women,
so that one immediately says: they are the richest.
PROCESSING OF MILK
COMMENTARY (on tap that is opening)
The female cowherds decided to take the processing and sales of their milk into own hands.
THERMOMETER IN MILK
AMINATA DIAKITE GUEYE
SVO – Aminata Diakité Gueye
When the milk enters, it is filtered
and pasteurized.
AWA DIALLO with team of processors
SVO – Awa Diallo
Farmer leader Dinfel
The protocol is signed,
from the eight, they will
deliver us 5.000 litres a week.
This enables us to go to the super markets.
AMINATA DIAKITE GUEYE
We produce 400 to 600 litres a day.
We can go up to 800 / 850 a day.
MILK STAND DAKAR (after four or five shots)
For the sales of curdled milk, the female cowherds have already opened 21 stands in the streets of the capital Dakar.
THIOUKEL SOW vendor stand
SVO – Thioukel Sow
We sell couscous
with fresh milk.
people buy milk over here because it’s
hygienic and well situated.
AWA DIALLO in stand
SVO – Awa Diallo
Farmer leader Dinfel
Every day, she sells 40 to 50 litres.
We deliver the milk and see she
has a good shop.
Her sales are increasing and
sometimes she calls at noon for more milk.
CLIENT AT OTHER MILK STAND
I’ve tasted the milk
and it is excellent.
It’s more tasteful than the milk
I used to buy.
AWA DIALLO SKYPEND
Friday it is a large women day
‘Africa can feed itself’,
We invited authorities, ministers,
parliament, NGO’s.
HONG KONG
PREPARATION ACTION IN CONGRESS PALACE
SVO – Hong Kong
GSM SCENE WITH TORTELLI 8*3312
English
ALTEMIR TORTELLI
Our friends of
Roppa and George Naylor
propose to hold a
demonstration inside.
RENE LOUAIL
We have to agree on the message
we spread.
NDIOGOU FALL
We do both,
today the symbolical action,
and later we think on a
common platform of demands.
THE ACTION
SOUND OF LOUD WHISTLES
ALTEMIR TORTELLI gives an interview
SVO – Altemir Tortelli
Farmer leader Fetraf
When the import taxes
decrease to less than 10 percent,
we risk that in Brazil one million
families will disappear from the milk production.
We have (a lot) more in common with farmers in
Africa or Asia than with our agro-industry.
SALIOU SARR at action
SVO – Saliou Sarr
Farmer leader CNCR-Senegal
We need other instruments.
Our suggestions are simple:
protection at regional level,
control the offer at international
level and provide fair prices.
We don’t want support or subsidies,
we want to live from our work.
NIGHT HONG KONG IN CONFERENCE BUILDING
3. THERE ARE OTHER ALTERNATIVES
BRAZIL
NIGHT THE COOPERATIVE MARKET AND SHOP of Erechim
SVO - Brazil
ALINE ANDREOLA
SVO – Aline Andreola
We bake bread for the market
and sell fruit.
CLAIRTON BALEN
SVO – Clairton Balen
We are independent. If there is a market
crisis in the US or somewhere else
this doesn’t trouble us,
we depend on our local clients.
ALINE ANDREOLA
We want to continue with the market
because it generates an income
and helps a lot.
ALTEMIR TORTELLI at the market
SVO – Altemir Tortelli
Farmer leader Fetraf
We have always produced food, but
the profit went to intermediaries,
traders and super market chains.
We learned we make more by
creating an added value and by selling
directly to consumers.
We offer a quality product
to our consumers.
CLAIRTON BALEN
You don’t understand what this means for us.
In the past, there was no money to throw a party,
now we sometimes lack the time to go
to a party, because we work hard.
CLIENT AT THE MARKET
This is home made bread,
nice and delicious.
The cheese is lovely.
I buy natural and healthy products,
because it’s close to home and
because it is a good product.
I always come to shop.
ALTEMIR TORTELLI at the market
The client doesn’t only see the packing,
but also the person behind the product.
THE COOPERATIVE SHOP
MARLENE PASQUALE for the cooperative shop
SVO – Marlene Pasquale
Cooperation Nossa Terra
Our consumer and farmer cooperation
Nossa terra exists 5 years.
For some family processing companies
this is the main vending point.
The cooperation has some
240 members, producers and
consumers.
We established this relation so that
the consumer of the town can give his
opinion on quality and preferences.
THE CREDIT COOPERATION CRESOL
CLAIRTON COMES TO BRING IN MONEY
COMMENTARY (read after 2”)
The growing farm movement is extending with their own credit cooperation Cresol.
CLAIRTON BALEN
SVO – Clairton Balen
I put the money I made on the Saturday market
into my account.
ANTENOR PERTILLE
SVO – Antenor Pertille
Credit cooperation Cresol
Cresol is created to support family
agriculture through projects such as
construction of houses in the countryside
and a bank account for farmers, without costs.
Before, they had no access to banks.
COMMENTARY (read almost immediately)
It’s even almost more important that farmers can borrow money from their credit cooperation …
PAOLO BALEN
SVO – Paolo Balen
I came to check the repayment for a
loan I have to repay, 545 euros,
in order to prepare myself to
find the money.
FROM SYNDICATE TO MOVEMENT– Brazilian mobilisation for education
SHOUT SLOGAN and / or CHANT
COMMENTARY (read after 2”)
A strong farmer movement goes beyond agriculture and economy. It wants a better society with higher education in the own region.
ALTEMIR TORTELLI on stage
SVO – Altemir Tortelli
Farmer leader Fetraf
We cannot accept that
education is a gift,
or a favour.
The government has to guarantee
quality education for everybody.
COMMENTARY (after 2”)
Fetraf as a farmer syndicate is elaborating economic alternatives with its cooperations and as a movement it fights for a better government policy on education or health care.
CORLAC
TASTE CHEESE AT CORLAC
This parmesan cheese is crowned
the second best cheese of Brazil.
COMMENTARY (read after 2”)
The farmer movement of the South of Brazil has also industrial importance. Their cooperation CORLAC daily collects 200.000 litres of milk and manages some large milk factories.
GERVASIO PLUCINSKI in front of terminal
SVO – Gervasio Plucinski
Corlac
This factory daily processes
80.000 litres of milk.
We collect the milk of
6.000 family farmers.
GERVASIO PLUCINSKI at the entrance
The government wanted to privatise the company
and sell it to a multinational.
We, family farmers,
organised ourselves
and took the broke company
in own hands.
This way, we were able to prevent
another company to fall in the hands
of a large multinational.
COMMENTARY (read on shot cheese carriers)
Corlac makes more than 10 types of cheese, different kinds of milk, cream, in total almost fifty products.
GERVASIO PLUCINSKI speaking about products in front of fridge
The largest challenge is to
stay competitive on the market
without expelling small farmers.
FRANCE
IMAGE AGRO-INDUSTRY IN FRANCE
SVO: France
RENE LOUAIL AT THE TABLE AFTER EATING PANCAKES
RENE LOUAIL
SVO – René Louail
Farmer leader Confédération Paysanne
It is a sad thing that
agricultural cooperations are derailed.
More than half of them have become multinationals,
that cannot be controlled,
they are only a cooperation on paper,
the farmers in their board of directors
are ghost farmers.
ZU COOP ATTENDS TO HIS COWS
RENE LOUAIL
We have to prevent them from getting to large,
otherwise, we cannot control them anymore.
BRIN D’ HERBE
MARIE-BEATRICE CAILLARD with the chickens
SVO – Marie-Béatrice Caillard
More than once a day
I collect eggs.
Our farm of 25 hectares has
laying hens as a main activity.
YVES CAILLARD with apple juice
SVO – Yves Caillard
We bring it at 80°,
we bottle it, very hot,
and cap it.
This is how we make apple juice.
STICKING LABEL ON BOTTLE
YVES CAILLARD with apple juice
TAKING THE APPLE JUICE TO THE SHOP
We opened our shop
in September 98.
CLIENTS
MARIE-BEATRICE CAILLARD in the shop
SVO – Marie-Béatrice Caillard
Brin d’Herbe is a shop
of farmers,
20 producers, in total 50 persons
who work on farms.
Our turnover amounts to more than 1 million euro
for the two shops.
We have approximately 350 clients
each week and in each shop.
CLIENT 1 – man
The product comes directly
from producer to consumer,
the products are fresh
and we are actually benefiting.
CLIENT 2 – female
I have all my vegetables
for the whole week,
and my chat at the cashpoint.
YVES CAILLARD WITH CLIENTS AT THE CASHPOINT
MARIE-BEATRICE CAILLARD in the shop
We have had some bad years
because we were selling our products
at a very low price
while they are quality products.
Since we are selling directly,
we recovered and
are living much better.
SENEGAL
CAMPAIGN AFRIQUE NOURRICIERE – AFRICA CAN FEED ITSELF
SVO - Senegal
PLACING CHAIRS
AWA DIALLO
SVO – Awa Diallo
Farmer leader Dinfel
All the chairs from the meeting room are
outside? That will not be enough.
PREPARATION FISH DISH in Grand Dakar
MAMELISSA NIANG
SVO – Mamelissa Niang
This is our contribution to
Africa can feed itself to show
the diversity of the Senegalese kitchen.
These are our onions,
the fish is caught here,
the oil is coming from our factories,
everything comes from here.
This way, we can conquer our
food sovereignty.
CAMPAIGN AFRIQUE NOURRICIERE
AWA DIALLO during speech (text starts at shot from behind of Awa Diallo)
I personally salute all of you.
SITTING PUBLIC AND AWA DIALLO STANDING during speech
AWA DIALLO
SVO – Awa Diallo
Farmer leader Dinfel
Africa can feed itself was launched by
our West African umbrella ROPPA.
We want to advertise
on food products
that we cultivate on our land.
We want the Senegalese
to eat what the farmers grow and breed.
APPLAUDING PUBLIC
HONG KONG
ONE CAN LAUGH EVERY ONCE AND A WHILE
SVO – Hong Kong
NDIOGOU FALL in computer room
SVO – Ndiogou Fall
Farmer leader Roppa
Something new happened here.
The farmers found each other and
for the first time they spoke with one voice.
RENE LOUAIL in reception hall
SVO – René Louail
Farmer leader Confédération Paysanne
Europe and the World Trade Organisation
sell the agriculture for the services,
this is unacceptable because it will
translate into a considerable
delocalisation of the agricultural
and food production from Europe.
LARGE PRESS CONFERENCE
JAPANESE FARMER LEADER SPEAKING AND MAKING GESTURES
SVO -
I have the income of a small farmer.
Before the World Trade Organisation,
I had a high revenue.
GEORGE NAYLOR (National Family Farm Coalition – NFFC, US)
SVO – George Naylor
National Family Farm Coalition - US
With low prices, the only way to react is
to increase production,
we all try it, and at the end, we
all get a lower price.
Like every country, we need
food sovereignty
in order to execute our own
agricultural policy
without being undermined by
cheap imports.
ALTEMIR TORTELLI on PC
SVO – Altemir Tortelli
Farmer leader Fetraf
We defend the right on
protectionism,
that enables our government to
protect markets.
NDIOGOU FALL on PC
We claim the right to
protect ourselves and
to have an agriculture that
rewards the work of farmers.
SALIOU SARR AFTER PRESS CONFERENCE
SVO – Saliou Sarr
Farmer leader CNCR-Senegal
These are farmers of
the whole world,
from the US, Brazil, Africa, the European Union, Japan and Norway,
they gathered to say:
we want family agriculture,
we want to feed our people,
we want to live from our work.
SENEGAL
OPENING SENEGALESE DISHES ON AFRIQUE NOURRICIERE
AWA DIALLO during interview at the table
SVO – Awa Diallo
Farmer leader Dinfel
There are millions of hectares of land
we can cultivate;
it’s a pity farmers don’t have the means to use this land
because of a lack of agricultural policy.
AFRIQUE NOURRICIERE
AWA DIALLO interviewed during dinner
You heard the representative speaking, he asks to
hold a similar day in parliament to imply the entire government.
I am sure that if we continue, we can really influence the government.
MUSIC
CREDIT TITLES ON DIFFERENT IMAGES AND FIGURES
A documentary of Dirk Barrez / Global Society
Image and sound - Koen Geurts
Editing and mixing - Gert Van den Cruijce
A production of Vredeseilanden, CSA, Oxfam Solidarity, Wervel, RAD, CPE, Acord
with special thanks to Anne-Laure Cadji, Gert Engelen, Souleymane Ndiaye, Agnes Vercauteren, Greenpeace
with support of the European Commission
THE FINAL IMAGE IS A GLASS OF MILK THAT IS FILLING