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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.12,0:00:02.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,3 myths about agro-ecology you've always heard,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.87,0:00:05.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but nobody had the courage to deny.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.62,0:00:08.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Myth # 1: organic food is more expensive.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.89,0:00:13.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not at all! Organic food appears to be more \Nexpensive because the supermarkets,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.36,0:00:16.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where we usually buy it, charge up to 4 times as \Nmuch as farmer’s markets. (up to 463% more)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.99,0:00:22.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Myth # 2: Agro-ecological production is less \Nproductive than conventional agriculture.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.87,0:00:27.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Agro-ecology is at least as productive as\Nconventional agriculture.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.69,0:00:32.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there’s an extra advantage: agro-ecological \Nproduction enriches the soil
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.22,0:00:35.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so it remains productive indefinitely.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.32,0:00:41.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pesticides and chemical fertilizers slowly weaken\Nthe soil and contaminate the water.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.59,0:00:47.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Myth # 3: agro-ecology means “returning to the stone-age”
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.24,0:00:51.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Actually, agro-ecological production is always adapting \Nin light of new knowledge and technologies.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.80,0:00:56.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While conventional agriculture always \Nfollows the same recipe,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.04,0:00:59.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,agro-ecology uses many different solutions.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.67,0:01:04.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An encyclopaedia of knowledge is spread \Namongst communities.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.87,0:01:07.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Globally, we already ruin over 5 million \Nhectares of soil each year.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.94,0:01:10.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An area bigger than the State of Rio de Janeiro.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.69,0:01:14.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,24% of our planet’s land is less productive \Nthan it used to be.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.12,0:01:16.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because of bad use of the soil.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.34,0:01:21.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there’s more: around the world, we use as \Nmuch as 4.5 billion litters of pesticides.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.86,0:01:23.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Brazil more than anyone else. \N(1/5 of the pesticides use. 850 million litters in 2011)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.81,0:01:27.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We want an agriculture that can feed the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.28,0:01:28.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Forever!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.92,0:01:32.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How about you? How do you want your agriculture?