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In the middle of December 2020, [[The Soft Protest Digest:About|The Soft Protest Digest]] was invited to the [Food Art Film Festival https://janvaneyck.nl/projects/food-art-film-festival] 2020, run by the Food Lab of the Jan van Eyck Academie; to create a project on food and hostile environments. Wealthy countries from the Western world, like the USA, generally don’t come to mind when thinking about agriculture; but no economy escapes from climate change. The collective used California and almond production as an exemple of a place where water is becoming a scarce resource because of climate change and land management: | In the middle of December 2020, [[The Soft Protest Digest:About|The Soft Protest Digest]] was invited to the [Food Art Film Festival https://janvaneyck.nl/projects/food-art-film-festival] 2020, run by the Food Lab of the Jan van Eyck Academie; to create a project on food and hostile environments. Wealthy countries from the Western world, like the USA, generally don’t come to mind when thinking about agriculture; but no economy escapes from climate change. The collective used California and almond production as an exemple of a place where water is becoming a scarce resource because of climate change and land management: | ||
* Before the event date, an edible pastry in the shape of an almond was sent in a box, filled with nut species calling on less water. | * Before the event date, an edible pastry in the shape of an almond was sent in a box, filled with nut species calling on less water. | ||
* The screening online, while eating the almond dessert, of <i>[ | * The screening online, while eating the almond dessert, of <i>[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Plow_That_Broke_the_Plains The plow that broke the plain]]</i>, Pare Lorentz, 1936. | ||
* A text making a bound in time between [[the Dust Bowl|About eroded soils: our contemporary deserts]] crisis and almond production: farmers who lost their eroded soils in the 30’s often migrated to California, where almond monocultures are now competing for local water resources. | * A text making a bound in time between [[the Dust Bowl|About eroded soils: our contemporary deserts]] crisis and almond production: farmers who lost their eroded soils in the 30’s often migrated to California, where almond monocultures are now competing for local water resources. | ||