Alexander Koensler University of Perugia, Italy
dx.doi.org/10.12835/ve2023.2-135
Abstract
A new border between those who are seeking to divides the rural pe
ripheries of central Italy, a border between those seeking to safeguard
a varied agricultural landscape and those hoping for easy money. Ac
cording to the “Italy Hazelnut Plan”, 20,000 hectares of new hazelnut
plantations are planned in central Italy alone, but the globalization
of the agricultural model based on large monocultures represents a
problem of global dimensions and is described by Donna Haraway
and Anna L. Tsing as “plantationocene”, accelerating climate change,
impoverishes local economic fabrics and pollutes soils and aquifers.
The documentary portrays a group of people trying to resist the mul
tiple effects of monocrops, building alternative economies and buying
land to remove them from the sphere of influence of multinational
companies.
Kewywords
Monocrops; Plantationocene; Italy; Resistance; Rural communities.
