A day in the life of Branko Komlen, an organic farmer in Herzegovina. It's not easy to make a living off the land and he sees the effects of pollution growing in his community, but he and his wife enjoy their life and the beauty of nature all around them. This documentary was produced in the workshop, "Environment and Organic Production" sponsored by CEFA/COSPE/ARCS and Film Klub Mostar / OKC Abrašević, in March 2008. Music by Vuneny and Nedim Ćisić.
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A product of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Meryl Streep narrates a film about Women for Women Internationals programs in Rwanda, Sudan, and Bosnia & Herzegovina where agricultural training, opening & maintaining green houses, and the launch of CIFI (Commercial Integrated Farming Initiative) is helping women take back the land.
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Meet Naza and Hermina, who recently used Kiva microfinance loans to purchase cows.
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Milena Nikolic was born in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, a place once known for its mineral springs and silver mines. Today the place is notorious as the scene of a massacre of 8000 Bosnian Muslims by Serb paramilitaries.After leaving school Milena became a social worker. Today she runs a youth club in her home town, and tries to persuade young people not to leave. She believes the economic independence of Srebrenica can best be achieved through green tourism and organic farming. She also wants to revive the old mineral springs, but she faces resistance from the political elite.
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What is organic agriculture? What Balkan consumers understand under the concept of organic agriculture and why? What is being done by consumer organisation of Slovenia in the field of organic food? Often, west European consumers perceived some traditional food as unhealthy. What about west Balkans consumers?
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Fig grower, Kevin Herman, tells Laura McIntosh about farming figs
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Do you want more information on Bosnia Today? Just visit www.wilderness-resort.de Documentary interview about the slow food group of the Pocegaca-Plum in Ustikolina, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Slivovica is a world renowned plum distillate from the Balkans. The most high grade Slivovica comes from the Pozegaca plum. In certain regions of the former Yugoslavia they still use the same variety of fruit, though less frequently than before, to make a preserve in syrup called slatko, meaning 'sweet'. In the upper valley of the Drina River, 120 kilometers southeast of Sarajevo near Gorazde, the women prepare the slatko with a particular variety of plum called pozegaca (Prunus insititia), which are gathered in the middle of September. The semi-wild Pozegaca plums on the banks of the River Drina are not grafted and grown entirely from seed. The women scald them in boiling water, peel them and then remove the pits with a skewer or a knitting needle. They firm them up by soaking them in water and lime for a half hour and then boil them in sugar water flavored with lemon slices, at times adding cloves and walnuts. Gorazde used to be a land of vineyards and orchards. Abandoned in the 1950s, they were replaced by war and chemical industries, swept away after 1989 by the dissolution of Yugoslavia. Today an attempt is being made to recover a farming economy that can once again become a source of income for the population. The slatko from pozegaca plums, whose color varies from honey yellow ...
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Shaped like a boomerang, the Republic of Croatia is a gateway to Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, and Slovenia and lies along the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. Most of the land is used for farming and one-third of it is forested. Croatia controls 1185 islands along its Adriatic coast, 67 of which are inhabited. Its Adriatic coast is famous for its beauty and is a popular destination for tourists. Economically, Croatia is slowly recovering from the effects of long-term communism as part of Yugoslavia and the scars of the heated, four-year war with Serbia that followed. The state still holds control of much of the economy, and privatization has been slow. Tourism, which has been very profitable, has helped turn the economy. Requesting membership in the European Union has motivated change and has increased more foreign investment. Most Croatians are Catholic, and less than one percent are Protestant. The country supports freedom of religion, but there is a not a distinct separation between the state and the Catholic church. There is a close link between ethnicity and religion throughout the nation, which has limited opportunities for spiritual breakthroughs and has left the number of evangelical churches few.
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Globe Trekker Zay Harding visits the Balkan countries of former Yugoslavia: Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia Herzegovina and Montenegro. Zay discovers four countries rich in tradition and history, with a common desire to live life to the full! Starting in the Kosovo, which became independent in February 2008, Zay explores the capital city Prishtina, and spends the night Albanian dancing to local band "Machiato". An incredible 50% of the population of Kosovo is under the age of 20, and since independence, the local music scene is thriving. The next day Zay visits Gazimestan, a memorial to a war that took place over 500 years ago. It is where the Serbians fought the Turks in 1389. As a concession to Serbian withdrawal from Kosovo, the memorial is now heavily patrolled by UN troops, an eerie feeling for a tourist site. Next stop Serbia, and Zay's first point of call is at a traditional farming festival outside the Kalenic Monastery. Zay is most excited about the mustache competition, even the Guinness book world record holder Zoran Pontic is there. After fudging his way into the event with a 30 cm long fake mustache, Zay manages to get onstage before his mustache falls off in front of everyone! The next day, Zay visits the local monastery. He works hard to make amends for his antics by mucking out the stables and milking cows with the nuns. Zay travels on to the Serbian capital Belgrade, the former seat of power for the whole of Yugoslavia. It is a city that is famously located where ...
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www.facebook.com twitter.com wonderwall.msn.com music.msn.com www.myspace.com www.netlog.com The Balkans (often referred to as the Balkan Peninsula, although the two are not coterminous) is a geopolitical and cultural region of southeastern Europe. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains, which run through the centre of Bulgaria into eastern Serbia. The region has a combined area of 550000 km2 (212000 sq mi) and a population of 55 million people.[citation needed] "Balkan" comes from a Turkish word meaning "a chain of wooded mountains".[1] The ancient Greek name for the Balkan Peninsula was the "Peninsula of Haemus" (Χερσόνησος τοῦ Αἵμου, Chersónēsos tou Haímou). Romans considered the Rhodope Mountains to be the northern limit of the Peninsula of Haemus and the same limit applied approximately to the border between Greek and Latin use in the region (this was later called Jireček Line[2]). The Balkans are also referred to as Southeastern Europe. The Balkan region was the first area of Europe to experience the arrival of farming cultures in the Neolithic era. The practices of growing grain and raising livestock arrived in the Balkans from the Fertile Crescent by way of Anatolia, and spread west and north into Pannonia and Central Europe. The identity of the Balkans is dominated by its geographical position; historically the area was known as a crossroads of various cultures. It has been a juncture between the Latin and Greek bodies of the Roman Empire, the ...
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See the original video, by Ljubica Vujadinovic, here: www.vjmovement.com
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Author and speaker Lisa Bevere discusses the vision that God gave her in 1994 to expand her boundaries beyond being a timid preacher's wife, and the story of Carter Crutchfield and the friend that God used to save his life after falling off a mountain. The 700 Club www.cbn.com
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