Land for Life

Transylvania, Romania. One of Europe's biodiversity hotspots. The soil is alive and with this soil live many species of plants and animals, in large numbers. The landscape is alive, communities are alive. All this has been supported by the way small-scale farmers treat the land and how communities treat their habitat. Unfortunately, this bounty and beauty is under great pressure from rapidly advancing large-scale industrial agriculture. In Romania, five farms are closing down every hour. In many cases, the land that is freed up is being taken by large-scale agriculture, with all the disastrous consequences that this entails. The non-profit organization ALPA (www.alpa.land) aims to provide an alternative to this trend by securing land for a new generation of agroecological farmers and biodiversity enhancement. This film is the beginning of this new, hopeful story.