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SendMichel CIRÈS, baker specialist in organic farming
Baker, specialist in the biological bread. He has an important bakery at Lourdes in France "L’ami du pain".
He is a specialist in organic bread and as such, he participated in 2008 in the programme supported by SOLIDARITÉ in the Vocational Training Centre For Women. From this experience in India, he brought back images wich have given rise to a film "Hands to do, hands to speak".
James FOREST, botanist, gardener,gatherer of medicinal plants and bread-making trainier.
Botanist, gardener, gatherer of medicinal plants and bread-making trainier. He teaches botany at the School of Medicinal Plants, Knowledge of the Natural World and Phyto-aromatherapy in the Toulouse area (http: // www.elpmtoulouse.com). This establishment is the south-western branch of the Lyon School Medicinal Plants.
He is a specialist in organic bread and as such, he participated in 2008 in the programme supported by SOLIDARITÉ in the Vocational Training Centre For Women. From this experience in India, he brought back images wich have given rise to a film "Hands to do, hands to speak". He works specifically on portable bakers’ovens. He is very active in agricultural and organic forums. He is a member of Réseau Semences Paysannes, of Erables31 and of Rénova.
Publications (in French) :
- "Mûre et Framboise : Valeur médicinale et nutritionnelle", (Blackberry and rasperry : medicinal and nutritional value) in Fruits Oubliés (Forgotten Fruits) by Christine Arnoux, n°43, 1st Mars 2009
- "Le noyer : Un arbre aux nombreuses vertus médicinales", (The walnut : a tree with numerous medicinal virtues), in Fruits Oubliés (Forgotten Fruits) by Christine Arnoux, n°40, 2008
- "Oubliée, la pomme? Certes non!", (Forgotten, the apple ? Certainly not !), in Fruits Oubliés (Forgotten Fruits) by Christine Arnoux, n°38, 1st February 2007
Mathieu SOUDAIS, film director
Film director. He is a native of Midi-Pyrénées region in France and is steeped in the world of farming. After studying history and cinema, he began to make films about the organic farming throughout the world. He is a founder member of the association created in 2009 : Les films en tous genres (All types of film).
Among his films (in French) :
Reconquérir les céréales au pays
(Win back cereals for the region)
Documentary, 24 mins.
A group of organic farmers and 2 associations (GAB65 and Terre en Vie) decide to re-introduce local cereals for human consumption, the majority being imported and used for animal feed...
The objective of the film is to incite organic farmers who do not transform their cereals, as well as "conventional" farmers, to produce, transform, and thus maximise the value of cereals of the farm.
Des mains pour faire, des mains pour dire
(Hands to do, hands to speak)
Based on images by James Forest and Michel Cirès
50mins - 16/9e - French version- 2010
In the South of India, about fifteen young women discover, during a training course in bread-making at the Vocational Training Center For Women, the qualities of traditional cereals of their country. Abandoned for about sixty years, the various varieties of millet appear as an indispensable alternative ito the consequences and of the impasse of the green revolution in India.
The question of the North-South exchanges of agricultural raw materials shows the persistence of a colonial inheritance forming an obstacle to real food "independence" for local populations.
Price : 12 € (Postal charges included)
To order the film,
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Association Les films en tous genres
Pomarede
31 800 Saux Pomarede / FRANCE
Laurent BEAUMONT, agro-economist
Jean-Pierre SANY
L’Indian Institute of Training on Post-Development (IITPD)
Claire
Open School
