At a time when the agricultural world is on the brink of collapse and the planet is suffocating, M6 has proposed its “green week” around an editorial system centered on the preservation of the earth.
To discover
TV tonight: our selection of the day
“Forbidden Zone”
closes this green cycle, this Sunday, February 11 from 9:10 p.m., with a subject anchored in current events: “These new farmers helping the planet”, a documentary co-produced by Édouard Bergeon, the director of film
In the Name of the Earth
.
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Scientific forecasts say it: we have twenty-five years left to make an agricultural and ecological transition in order to adapt to global warming and episodes of drought and floods.
Farmers already face the vagaries of the weather, the erosion of their land and the reduction of their yields, but they are also among the largest emitters of CO2.
To survive and continue to feed us, they will have to adapt (just like us) by diversifying their crops, changing the way they produce and reducing their ecological impact.
Regenerative agriculture as a solution
Some farmers have already started this movement.
“Forbidden Zone”, presented by Ophélie Meunier, followed four farms focused on regenerative agriculture for almost a year.
Martin Gosse de Gorre lives in Ostreville in the north of France.
His family has worked the land for seven generations.
A strong heritage that he honors while taking a sideways path.
He has, in fact, decided to do without glyphosate and to give up plowing in his flax and potato fields in an attempt to reverse soil erosion and better retain water.
A choice that goes against the practices previously exercised by his father, who became his partner, but also a bet on the future.
“I will only have a return in ten years to see if I was right and if the land is improving.
I would like to believe in that and to know, you have to try
,” he explains.
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The cameras follow it from seed to harvest.
Bérénice Walton, based in Gironde, has, for her part, given herself a mission: to raise cows without emitting greenhouse gases.
A rather daunting challenge when we know that cattle are responsible for 11.8% of emissions in France.
But thanks to food produced on her farm, more vegetation in her fields and the “dynamic rotational grazing” technique, this pioneer has succeeded in her challenge and even has a positive balance sheet.
Nothing is lost, everything is transformed
As the saying goes: only fools don't change their minds.
This adage fits perfectly with Ernest Hoeffel's story.
This Charolais cow breeder living in Walbourg in Alsace and coming from conventional agriculture converted to agroecology at the age of 60!
With him, nothing is lost, everything is transformed and nature does its work using ancestral methods.
The result: savings and, above all, animals in great shape.
A fascinating documentary which, through the portraits of these farmers exploring new agricultural practices intended to adapt to climate change and feed us in a more virtuous way, offers a breath of pure air.