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.”
terrafoto is an international group of photographers, writers and filmmakers founded in 2021, to raise awareness of the importance of local initiatives which can build community and help to better our world in these times of growing inequality and climate extremes.
terrafoto wants to challenge the notion that we are helpless in the face of the many difficulties that our future poses to us by telling the stories of people who dare to think different and engage in solutions based on collectivity and a circular economy.
In our first finished project we stress the significance of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and other ways of local involvement with growing healthy food. For that we visited a variety of community oriented, local organic farms during four seasons in five different countries.
In our Stories section you can see and read how the shift can work from industrial agriculture, with its exploitation of soil, animals and people, to CSA methods that cooperate with nature rather than against it.
In 2025 we will take terrafoto into cities in the USA, Germany, France, Mexico, and the Netherlands, with a focus on urban farming in food deserts as well as the rise of the citizen farmer, and on housing and energy initiatives that make neighborhoods more resilient.