Friends of the Earth Wanstead & Woodford invite you to a Climate Week film screening of the celebrated BBC documentary, A Farm for the Future.        

A Farm for the Future is all about food. You just cannot get away from the stuff! We all need it, and in the West we all take it for granted. But maybe we shouldn’t do so. The abundance that we see around us is quite simply enabled by the availability of cheap fossil fuels. Fuels to till the soil and farm the land, fuels from which to create artificial fertilisers, fuels to create packaging, fuels to transport foods. The food system emits four of the greenhouse gases associated with climate change and the livestock industry alone, from farm to fork, currently creates an estimated 18% of the world's total annual carbon emissions. But it's not only temperatures that are rising. So is the price of oil. There's no getting away from it, we need to eat - all 7 billion of us. So how would we cope without all of this oil?

Come along and find out...

Refreshments will be served from 6.30pm, with a speaker from Friends of the Earth's Climate Team introducing the film at 7pm. After the screening there will be a moderated audience discussion with guests from local food-growing and sustainability groups such as Wanstead Transition, a quiz based on the film, and goody bags from Friends of the Earth.

A Farm for the Future, by film maker Rebecca Hosking, was first shown 3 years ago on the BBC. Rebecca returns to her family’s farm in Devon to explore effective, low-energy ways of farming without the use of fossil fuels.

Rebecca Hosking is also known as the campaigner who banned plastic bags from the town of Modbury in South Devon, the 1st town in Europe to go plastic bag-free. She was awarded an MBE in 2010 for services to the environment.