Hungry for Profit
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Overview
- Genre
- Investigation, Foreign Worlds, Human Rights, and Contemporary Issues
- Synopsis
Filmed on five continents, this provocative documentary takes a close look at the global agribusiness system, which is turning the world's food supply into a global supermarket, buying food at the lowest prices—seemingly regardless of the effect on small farmers and local populations—and selling it at the highest price and the greatest profit whenever possible.
A clearheaded and moving film about the rise of global agribusiness and the disturbing effects of first-world economic concerns on third-world food supply ...Many of the issues investigated remain at the core of the global hunger debate." —Gourmet Magazine, February 2007
"Clear and convincing. Excellent for studies of population, land use, food economics, international banking, social organization, history and comparative government."
—Amer. Assn. for the Advancement of Science"No other documentary conveys the role of agribusiness and the importance of "food first" to the hungry."
—Institute for Food & Development Policy- Treatment
- Show treatment
- Stage
- finished
- Running time
- 85 minutes
Credits
- Robert Richter ... Producer, Director, Writer,
- Burleigh Wartes ... Cinematographer
- Peter Kinoy ... Editor
- David Loxton ... Executive Producer
Production Details
- Prod. Co.
- Richter Productions
- Country
- United States
- Years of Production
- 1985
- Locations
- Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Senegal, Kenya, Philippines, United States
Distribution Details
- Release year
- 1985
- Awards
- PBS Primetime broadcast, CINE Golden Eagle
- Broadcast (Prod.)
- WNET-TV
- Language
- English, Tagalog, French, Swahili, Portugese, Thai
- Subtitles
- English Subtitles
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