Black Farmers are Already Responding to Climate Change. Here’s How.

Black communities in the U.S. and around the world are responding to climate change in proactive ways — prioritizing small, sustainable farms and honoring ancestral traditions to provide healthy food for their communities.

In Malawi we see Anita Chitaya, a farmer, community leader, and activist, building “climate change stoves” in an effort to conserve firewood for her community.

Anita then travels to the U.S., where she meets with a number of Black farmers. At D-Town Farm in Detroit, we learn about the significance of food production as an economic driver for the city’s Black community. In Maryland, The Black Dirt Collective explains what it means to be “keepers of the seeds.” 

This is the final episode of the five-part “The Ants & the Grasshopper: The Series,” a co-production of Kartemquin Educational Films and Peril and Promise, a public media initiative from The WNET Group.

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Major funding for Peril and Promise is provided by Dr. P. Roy Vagelos and Diana T. Vagelos with additional funding from Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, and the Estate of Worthington Mayo-Smith.