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A group of subsistence farmers and musicians from northeast Brazil recently bicycled over 6,000 miles across the South American continent in search of natural seeds. Their journey was documented in Ciclovida: Lifecycle, a film filled with stories of landless peasants, indigenous communities, and small farmers who expose the devastating effects of industrial agriculture destined for agrofuels. Ciclovida: Lifecycle takes you along on their musical voyage, through the storms, family separations, and bouts of isolation on a road filled with seeds of hope. The filmmakers and the subsistence farmers and musicians will visit Brooklyn at the Commons, where they will use a pedal-powered projector to show their film.

Donations will help fund the filmmakers future screening/bike tour. Any additional funds raised will go towards small windmills for Ciclovida’s seed garden, their kid’s theater project and distribution of the film in Brazil.

Come earlier on Monday, if you can, for a 5 pm workshop presented by the same folks on:

Biofuels, Agrofuels, Farmers and Climate Change

Promoted as a solution to climate change, large-scale industrially-grown crops processed for agrofuels are, in fact, a major contributor to deforestation and therefore climate killers. They also have devastating effects on small farmers and indigenous communities. This workshop will inform on this reality and discuss what local, grassroots solutions, including sustainable biofuels, could look like.  We will also touch on how multinational agribusiness is impacting and the Landless Movements in Brazil. One of the largest social movements in the world, the movement of landless farmers in Brazil, involves several million families in Brazil who mobilize to occupy fallow farmland and build projects of sustainable agriculture, community centers, schools, seed banks and more. We will share some of the methods and practices of Seed Saving.

For more info visit http://ciclovida.org