The Project
Five countries.
One vision.
“Every human on Earth has the right of access to clean water, clean air, and good and healthy food. But people often forget that this right is closely related to their own responsibility. Industrial agriculture will not be able to feed humanity, because its resources will be depleted in 50 years. Community Supported Agriculture, by contrast, has the potential to solve the global agricultural crisis: it preserves our natural resources, and consumers and farmers are closely connected, treating each other fairly.”
We are an international group of photographers, filmmakers and writers who have come together to raise awareness of the importance of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and other ways of local involvement with growing food in these times of climate extremes.
There is a new urgency to shift from industrial agriculture, with its exploitation of soil, animals and people, to sustainable future oriented methods. For this reason food production has to become a joint task in our global society.
CSA farmers worldwide share one vision: a strengthened sense of togetherness through local markets. CSA brings shareholders, farmers, and farmland into a mutually beneficial relationship. People who purchase a share of a growing season’s produce know when, where, and how their vegetables and coffee are grown, their meat is raised, and the farmer can rely on a steady source of income and prices which reflect the production costs.
terrafoto tells their stories: about good and healthy food, shared responsibility, people, and places. By doing so, we visually document the power of a movement which can change our world for the better.
terrafoto accompanies a variety of community oriented farms for four seasons. This is a work in progress; the first stories have now been published on this website, with more to follow soon.