JULIEN LE NET, BENJAMIN POLLE

FRANCE | 2015 | 30’

Et Maintenant Nos Terres, a documentary on the resistance against land grabbing in Africa. Three heroes, three farmers fight to protect their land and their lifestyle, against foreign investors. In Cameroon,  Nasako Besingi recovers the project of oil palm plantations by an American investment fund while Emmanuel Elong creates an international alliance of producers in direct negotiation with the French group Bolloré. Resistance takes place in Senegal as well where breeders manage to mobilize international press in their fight against an Italian investor. Everyone refuses to leave their land and strive for another agricultural development model in Africa. A model that already exists! The evidence is in Benin, where the center Songhaï trains hundreds of young Africans every year on organic and local agriculture. The alternatives to industrial agriculture are growing and have been experimented in Africa. Maintenant Nos Terres narrates these experiences.

Benjamin Polle and Julien Le Net are two independent authors and directors, in Africa for observing and living the complexity of agricultural issues in the continent. "Maintenant Nos Terres" is their first documentary.