Face aux Cotons

"Face aux Cotons", a report about Burkina Faso. A meeting with farmers after four years of growing Bt cotton.

Project visual Face aux Cotons
Successful
69
Contributions
12/03/2014
End date
€3.176
Out of €3.000
106 %

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<div> <div> <div> <div> <div> Hi everyone,</div> <br /> Only a few days left before the first projection of the movie &quot;Face aux Cotons&quot; ! (<b>trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8GKqR4Tc0M" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr />v=e8GKqR4Tc0M</a></b>). It&#39;s now time to give you practical info :<br /> &nbsp;</div> <b>When? </b>Saturday March 21rst, 6:00pm</div> <b>Where ?</b> at Bures-Sur-Yvette, in the Cultural Centre Marcel Pagnol (3 minutes walking from the train station &quot;Bures-sur-Yvette&quot;, RER B : 35 minutes depuis Denfert-Rochereau, 45 minutes from Ch&acirc;telet les Halles) --&gt; SEE MAP<br /> &nbsp;</div> We will be very happy to see you there,<br /> &nbsp;</div> <p> Catherine &amp; Chlo&eacute;.</p> <p> &nbsp;</p> <p> &nbsp;</p> <p> <img alt="Diapositive1-1426150088" height="457" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/172742/Diapositive1-1426150088.jpg" width="639" /></p>
<p> Dear KissBankers,</p> <p> &nbsp;</p> <p> It is thanks to your support that the movie will finally be done !</p> <p> We invite you on Saturday, March 21rst at 6 pm at the &quot;Centre Culturel Marcel Pagnol&quot; of Bures sur Yvette to attend the projection of the movie and take part to a debate on genetically modified organisms.</p> <p> Pour vous faire patienter jusqu&#39;&agrave; l&#39;arriv&eacute;e du printemps, voici d&eacute;j&agrave; une petite pr&eacute;sentation du film.</p> <p> Encore merci, et &agrave; tr&egrave;s vite !</p> <p> Catherine et Chlo&eacute;</p> <p> &nbsp;</p> <p> <strong>&laquo; Face aux cotons &raquo; : a movie in the country of white gold </strong></p> <p> <em>If the United States are GMO&#39;s pioneers, more and more countries grow genetically modified crops. </em></p> <p> <em>For about ten years in Sub-Saharan Africa, Burkina Faso bet on genetically modified seeds&#39; potential to produce its white gold : cotton. </em></p> <p> <em>&quot;Face aux Cotons&quot; is a report made in this country, one of the poorest in the world, where these high-tech seeds are combined with archaic agricultural practices. </em></p> <p> <em>Chlo&eacute; Brouzes, engineering student and Catherine Bazan, journalist, tried to understand why this biotechnology was inserted in Burkina Faso, and what are the field reality, advantages and limits of Bt cotton in this country.</em></p> <p> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<img alt="Face_au_coton_1_1_-1423601851" height="374" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/160935/Face_au_coton_1_1_-1423601851.jpg" width="536" /></p>
<p> Dear Kissbankers,</p> <p> &nbsp;</p> <p> Thanks again for your help for this project. Please find below the link for the trailer of our movie. It should give you an idea of the future movie (released on the 21rst of March).</p> <p> &nbsp;</p> <p> Merry Christmas</p> <p> &nbsp;</p> <p> Catherine &amp; Chlo&eacute;.</p> <p> &nbsp;</p> <p> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8GKqR4Tc0M" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8GKqR4Tc0M</a></p> <p> (subtitles in English available)</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(82, 82, 82); font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <img alt="Thank-you-wallpaper" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/75209/thank-you-wallpaper.jpg" /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <span style="font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(82, 82, 82);">A big &nbsp;<strong><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">THANK YOU</span></strong>&nbsp;to all our sponsors !! We still cannot believe it, the fundraising just ended, and,&nbsp;</span><b><font face="EB Garamond, serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><font color="#008000">thanks to YOU, we reach our goal !!</font></span></font></b></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(82, 82, 82); font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> As we explained,&nbsp;<strong><span style="color: rgb(75, 0, 130);">this fundraising was necesarry to lead an objective investigation.</span></strong>&nbsp;Indeed, asking private companies for help would have discredit the survey, since most of the time, these companies already have an opinion about GMOs, and people are then suspected of defending the companies&#39; ideas (whether the company is for or against GMOs).</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <font color="#525252" face="EB Garamond, serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Thanks to the range of beliefs of every single &quot;KissBanker&quot;, we hope that people will trust us for going to Burkina &nbsp;</span></font><strong><font color="#000080" face="EB Garamond, serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">without any preconceived idea. </span></font></strong><font color="#525252" face="EB Garamond, serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">&nbsp;We will anyway do our best to do the best report as we can. We hope that we will manage to have an objective vision of the situation and&nbsp;transmit it to you with&nbsp;clarity.</span></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(82, 82, 82); font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Again, a big THANK YOU to all of those who contributed to this exciting project, we will never forget this help.</p>
<p> C&#39;est tout nouveau, c&#39;est tout beau : LE BLOG EST ARRIVE !!</p> <p> &nbsp;</p> <p> Abonnez-vous, suivez-le, likez-le : c&#39;est gratuit et cela vous permettra de <strong>suivre toutes les actualit&eacute;s de notre enqu&ecirc;te !</strong></p> <p> &nbsp;</p> <p> <a href="http://face-aux-cotons.over-blog.com" target="_blank">http://face-aux-cotons.over-blog.com</a></p> <p> &nbsp;</p> <p> Il est organis&eacute; en 4 sections :&nbsp;</p> <p> 1. &quot;Accueil&quot; : vous y trouverez les posts par ordre chronologiques, du plus r&eacute;cent au plus ancien.</p> <p> 2. &quot;Quoi de neuf&quot; : vous retrouverez toutes les actualit&eacute;s sur le projet</p> <p> 3. &quot;Gen&egrave;se du projet&quot; : pour mieux comprendre comment est n&eacute;e cette envie d&#39;enqu&ecirc;ter sur ce sujet</p> <p> 4. &quot;Contact&quot; : pour nous poser toutes les questions que vous voulez, nous sugg&eacute;rer des id&eacute;es, etc.</p>
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