Yves Billy

The recent surge in agricultural prices was a wake-up call: never before has the world faced a food crisis on such a scale. But the difficulties have only just begun. Today, 925 million people on the planet suffer from hunger, and their numbers are growing ever faster. In addition to rising commodity prices, the scarcity of water and arable land, and the ravages caused by climate disruption, two recent phenomena have come to the fore: at the very moment when China's demand for cereals accelerated sharply, biofuels began to redraw the map of world agriculture. As for agricultural productivism, which has exhausted the soil and polluted the environment, it has reached its limits...

Traveling from the US to India, France, Belgium, Niger and Ethiopia, Hunger for Sale looks at some of the key challenges in producing food for the future—and in feeding the planet's current population. As corporations rush in to stake their claims in the coming food "gold rush", this film asks whether depending on private industry, increasingly technological solutions and market forces to feed the world is really the most effective approach.