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Food and indigenous culture: Corn in Mexico
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- Culture
- Mexico
- Participatory-made film
- Sustainable Agriculture
- youth
In Mexico, more than 40 species of Creole corn have evolved. During 5,000 years of domestication, have generated their own and sacred cultural identity, very important for more than 3 million peasants: we say no to transgenic corn!
Film made with boys and girls from the Jat’i Participatory Video Workshop.
Part 2 in special series for World Food Day 2018 in partnership with Land Rights Now mobilization. Find out more here.
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Jat’i is a community, cultural and audiovisual project. Born from the process of Local Development of 15 years in San Ildefonso T...
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