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Ons huidig voedsel hangt aan elkaar van de olie, hoe zou de landbouw kunnen veranderen? Rebecca komt tot de ontdekking dat de natuur uiteindelijk de sleutel is naar een toekomstige energiezuinige landbouw.

Wildlife film maker Rebecca Hosking investigates how to transform her family's farm in Devon into a low energy farm for the future, and discovers that nature holds the key.

With her father close to retirement, Rebecca returns to her family's wildlife-friendly farm in Devon, to become the next generation to farm the land. But last year's high fuel prices were a wake-up call for Rebecca. Realising that all food production in the UK is completely dependent on abundant cheap fossil fuel, particularly oil, she sets out to discover just how secure this oil supply is.

Alarmed by the answers, she explores ways of farming without using fossil fuel. With the help of pioneering farmers and growers, Rebecca learns that it is actually nature that holds the key to farming in a low-energy future.

This powerful and moving film shown on BBC some weeks ago explores the state of farming in the UK in the context of Peak Oil. Wildlife film maker Rebecca Hosking, who turned Modbury against plastic bags, investigated how to transform her family's farm in Devon into a low energy farm for the future.

The film features a crash course in peak oil from Colin Campbell (pictured) and Richard Heinberg, a trip to the Soil Association conference and much more besides. Perhaps the most shocking moment was a short piece with some film from the early 80s of her dad ploughing their fields, followed by a riot of birds, all wanting to get at the soil creatures being exposed by the ploughing, which was contrasted with now, the tractor ploughing the same field, but with not a bird in sight, so impoverished has the soil life become.
Rebecca Hosking interviews Colin Campbell
It offered a powerful combination of looking back and looking forward, underpinned all the time by her clear deep affection she has for the farm itself. and the deep respect she has for both her father and his work. It was surprisingly personal and moving. It was also very powerful for people to start to realise that food production and biodiversity are not necessarily, as is often believed, mutually exclusive.

Writing on the theoildrum.com, Chris Vernon said that "Perhaps the most impressive thing about this film is that it exists at all. Within the BBC, the Natural History Unit is one of the most conservative. The producers of had a tremendous struggle getting this film made. The hope is that with the Natural History Unit producing a film with peak oil at its heart, the gates are now open to all the other departments such as News at Ten, Panorama, Horizon etc. to cover peak oil. There is knowledge and understanding of peak oil within the BBC but also nervousness about reporting."

Vernon added that "Above all the presentation comes from the heart. It is sure to capture the imagination of many people who, not least due to the deepening recession, are primed for new ideas like never before."

Rob Hopkins commented that "We are all in Rebecca's debt for so passionately and coherently showing the nation both that food and farming is in desperate need of a Plan B, and that that Plan B could actually be more biodiverse, more resilient, more beautiful and nourishing, than what we have come to view as 'normal'."

A feature length article about the film in this Daily Mail article.

For those elsewhere there may be some helpful comments on Rob Hopkins’ blog post:
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