Cinema Nativa: Doc "The Green Vein"

World Food Day,

Let's go from local to global with desires, dreams and practices that contribute to a world where those who produce, taking care of the common good, can live with dignity, live well... and that food is tasty, nutritious and available to those who seek it!

André Vizinho and Jorge Gonçalves show the results of the first phase of data collection, the result of this initial phase of SAL Odemira (Local Food System). Visit the website at https://www.salodemira.pt

At 7pm, director Sara de Sousa Correia presents the film "A Veia Verde: West Africa's agro-ecological renaissance".

Synopsis of the documentary: "For centuries, the great empires of West Africa were nourished by rivers like the Volta or the Niger - their blue veins.

Today, after centuries of colonization, food resilience on the banks of these rivers is more fragile than ever, with endogenous culture being lost to an increasingly urban and violently industrialized transitional society.

Farmers poisoned by pesticides are a constant in Burkina Faso, triggering the search for alternatives that are sought by partnerships between scientists and peasants.

Nigeria tells us how far this boat can sink through the voice of Dr. Beatrice, but it is on the edge of Niger, in Mali, that we find a first answer. "My first contact with agriculture was through the internet," says Ousmane, a former footballer who has swapped soccer pitches for other fields. "This is the moment of the African Renaissance," argues Godfrey Namudjo, founder of Songhai, an agro-ecological training center with a global reputation. Students and researchers are seeking to valorize endogenous culture and recover local food sovereignty. On the urban outskirts, children are learning to plant. Members of the Rastafarian community devotionally feel the call to care for the health of the land and people. A stream of consciousness, ideas and initiatives flows and grows across West Africa like a powerful green vein fertilizing the earth."

At the end of the time we will have time for a chat with the director.

Dinner will be available, with vegetarian and animal protein options.