Join us for a film screening and discussion with Chitrangada Choudhury, Director and Cinematographer, and Aniket Aga, Associate Director, moderated by Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Professor of the History of Science and Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico, Harvard University.
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About the film:
In a village in Odisha’s Eastern Ghats, barefoot ecologist Debal Deb & his team are conserving over 1000 endangered heirloom rice varieties in-situ. But the region, one of the world’s surviving biodiversity hotspots and home to sophisticated Kondh Adivasi agroecological knowledge systems, is irreversibly changing with the coming of chemical-intensive genetically modified cotton. Seed Stories takes a worm’s eye view of these shifts and invites audiences to reflect on ‘What is sustainability?’
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