00:00Growing her own organic food and becoming a farmer, that's Magdalena's plan.
00:05I'm planning on making some, like growing some small amount of vegetables on my own.
00:10And if it turns out that I've learned something, then maybe it will grow into a business as well.
00:14More and more women are turning to organic farming and sustainable agriculture in Poland,
00:19where industrial farming controls about a third of agricultural land.
00:23We use our soil in a bad way and we harm it, we make it less fertile and we treat
00:31it as something that belongs to us
00:32and not something that is given to us to protect.
00:36At Poland's only school for organic agriculture, students learn how to protect the environment.
00:41The 12-month program combines part-time study with hands-on training on an organic farm.
00:47This agroecological approach attracts more women than men.
00:50We spend a lot of time to teach about soil and to build kind of a relationship to soil,
00:57to feel a lot of respect for nature.
01:01Organic farming is still in its infancy in Poland.
01:04For small farms, finding a market remains a struggle.
01:07In these so-called pillars of agroecology, there is a lot of emphasis on aspects like strengthening women in agriculture
01:17or the territorial aspect of farming, which I think makes it a bit more holistic.
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