Food Not Fuel
Across the developing world, food crops are being destroyed to make way for biofuels. Actor Aidan Gillen (The Wire, Game of Thrones, Love/Hate) travels to Guatemala with Irish development agency Trócaire to meet the Rio Frio community who were evicted off land in the Polochic Valley to facilitate the expansion of a sugarcane plantation.
He finds out how European demand for biofuels is resulting in land grabs, higher food prices and hunger.
Credits
Presented by Aidan Gillen.
Directed and produced by Eoghan Rice and Alan Whelan
Filmed and edited by Alan Whelan.
Researched and scripted by Eoghan Rice.
With a big thanks to:
the Ical family and the community of Rio Frio
and Blanca Blanco and Adele Tibaldeschi, Jorge Macias and the staff of Fundacion Guillermo Toriello for their translation, logistics, planning and expertise.
Music
Shot in Back of the Head, Moby © Moby used with kind permission by Moby Gratis.
Ice and Chilli, Ghost, used under the Creative Commons Licence.
Ghana be (Merci La Mer Si Sale), Phil the Nil, used under the Creative Commons Licence.
Awareness, royalty free music loop, © Apple