食物的未来
类别:纪录片/英国/2009/英语
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导演:George Alagiah
时间:2023-12-01 03:37:54
该片是由George Alagiah执导的剧情片,于2009年上映,主要讲述了: Future of Fo.od In the past year, we .have seen food riots .on three continents, foo.d inflati.on has rocketed and expe.rts. predict that by 2.050, if things don't. change, we will s.ee mass starvation. across the .world. This film sees Georg.e Alag.iah travel the .world in search of so.lutions to the growing g.lobal food crisis. Fr.om the two women working. to make .their Yorkshire market t.own. self-sufficient t.o the academic who claim.s it could be bett.er for the environ.ment to ship. in lamb from New Zealand, .George. Alagiah meets .the people who believ.e they know how we shoul.d feed the world as d.emand doubles by the mid.dle of th.e century. 【India】 Geo.rge. joins a Masai chi.ef among the skeletons o.f hundreds of catt.le he has lost to .climate chan.ge and the English farmer w.ho tel.ls him why food. production in the UK. is also hit. He spends .a day eating with a f.amily in Cuba to find ou.t how a f.uture oil shock could le.ad .to dramatic adjust.ments to diets. He visit.s the breadbasket .of India to meet t.he farmer wh.o now struggles to irrigate. his l.and as water ta.bles drop, and finds .out why obesity is spira.lling out of control .in Mexico. Back in Brit.ain, Geor.ge investigates what is .wro.ng with people'.;s diets, and discovers .that the UK import.s an average of 30.00 litres of. water per capita every day.. He t.alks to top nut.ritionist Susan Jebb,. DEFRA minister Hilary B.enn and Nobel laureat.e Rajendra Pachauri to u.ncover wh.at the future holds for .our. food. 【Senegal】 . George heads out to Ind.ia to discover how. a changing diet i.n the develo.ping world is putting press.ure on. the world'.s limited food resour.ces. He finds out how us.ing crops to produce .fuel is impacting on foo.d supplie.s across the continents.. Ge.orge then meets a .farmer in Kent, who is s.truggling to sell .his fruit at a pro.fit, and a B.ritish farmer in Kenya who .is shi.pping out tonne.s of vegetables for o.ur supermarket shelves. .He also examines why .so many people are still. dying of. hunger after decades of. fo.od aid. Back in t.he UK, George challenges. the decision-make.rs with the facts .he has uncov.ered - from Oxfam head of r.esearc.h Duncan Green .to Sainsbury's bo.ss Justin King. He finds. out why British beef. may offer a model for f.uture mea.t production and how our. ap.petite for fish is. stripping the world'.;s seas bare. 【Cu.ba】 In the final .episode Geor.ge Alagiah heads out to Hav.ana to. find out how t.hey are growing half .of their fruit and veget.ables right in the he.art of the city, investi.gates the. 'land-grabs' tr.end. - where rich coun.tries lease or buy up th.e land used by poo.r farmers in Afric.a - and meet.s the Indian agriculturalis.ts who. have almost tr.ebled their yields ov.er the course of a decad.e. George finds out .how we in this country a.re using .cutting-edge science to .ext.end the seasons re.cycle our food waste and. even grow lettuce. in fish tanks to .guarantee th.e food on our plates. He h.ears t.he arguments ab.out genetically modif.ied food and examines ev.en more futuristic sc.hemes to get the food on. to our p.lates.