Peanuts
A documentary on the introduction of appropriate technology in a village in Southern Mali. Film technician Jock Brandis observed to villagers that growing cotton would rob their soil of nitrogen, and suggested that they plant peanuts either around the cotton plants or in rotation, to improve the soil. Peanuts are also more profitable, but a mechanical peanut sheller was needed. Brandis set about designing a small scale sheller that local people could build on the spot and fix themselves. A living example of the difference that one person, with good will and determination, can make in the lives of countless others
VHS Video, English, ©2002
Bullfrog Films, Oley, PA, ©2002