My cousin is a farmer

Marine Guizy was born in the Oise region, near her grandfather's farm. She became estranged from her farming family when she moved to the big cities. To give a voice to those who don't have one, she decided to meet her cousin François, who has taken over the family farm. Brought up with an ideal of productivism, François is an heir to the post-war model of intensive, polluting farming. He grows milling wheat, sugar beet and rapeseed on almost 400 hectares. Like many farmers in the region, he's trying to combine the impossible: for his farm to survive, he needs to maintain good yields while reducing its environmental impact. Marine sat down with him to find out. How did we get here? Why is it so difficult to transform our system? How do we deal with the consequences of intensive farming? Through François' story, Marine Guizy examines our agricultural model and tells us a story that is both intimate and political, between the secrets of the land and French and European politics.