"Meliponicultura": Stories and Knowledge Exchange
The Last Seed - film screening and discussion
An evening for seed diversity and sustainable agriculture in Southern Africa - and the impact on global food systems
10. December 2023
17.00-19.30
17.00-19.30
Save the Date
for free
for adults
in German/in English
Movie in English with German subtitles
Talk in English with German whisper translation.
As part of Black Earth Collective’s December Community Connect event, join us for a screening of “The Last Seed” - a documentary film about seed diversity and sustainable agriculture in Southern Africa.
The film demonstrates how capitalism and colonialism intersect in putting the heritage and future of African Agroecology in danger in the midst of exploitation. “The Last Seed” invites us to understand the interconnection between liberation of beings on this earth - including nature and the seeds it carries.
Following the screening, we would like to discuss the film and its implications for movements and allies fighting for liberation. People representing Berlin-based Food Sovereignty/Decolonised Food System initiatives will join us in conversation. Dr. Mwatima Juma from TOAM (Tanzania Organic Agriculture Movement), who is featured in the film, will join us virtually.
Donations will be collected to support TOAM and their current struggles for food sovereignty and sustainable agriculture in the region.
Afterward, join us for a hangout space and music in the café, enjoy drinks and snacks from our friends at Café Arakil.
Film screening and discussion organized by Black Earth Collective in collaboration with Ararat Collective/Café Arakil, and Spore Initiative.
Black Earth Collective is an intersectional environmental and climate justice collective founded in Berlin
https://www.instagram.com/blackearthkollektiv/
Ararat Kollektiv Berlin is an Armenian antifascist collective founded during the Artsakh war in 2020
Dr. Mwatima Juma is the Chairperson of Tanzania Organic Agriculture Movement (TOAM) and one of the founders of Msonge Organic Family Farm and the Practical Permaculture Institute of Zanzibar. She is one of the leading voices for organic agriculture in Tanzania and Zanzibar. She is on a quest to make Zanzibar 100% organic in all its aspects; to transform local production systems to a permaculture system, becoming regenerative, sustainable and most importantly devoid of all chemical toxins. Juma holds a PhD. in Agronomy and Crop Science from University of London Wye College.
Samie Blasingame (she/her) is a social justice facilitator with a background in environmental policy, intercultural studies, and creative communications. She regularly curates, hosts and facilitates events on topics related to sustainability, environmental justice, anti-racist decolonization, and ecosystem mapping. She is the Creative Director of Food in my Kiez, sits on the board of Greenbuzz Berlin with who she runs the #FeedingBerlin series, and organises with the Berlin-based climate and environmental justice collective, Black Earth. Her work and political ethos revolves around community building and collective imaginations toward a just and resilient future.
The Last Seed (2023),Produced by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in association with the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, Biowatch South Africa, and PELUM Tanzania.
