Directed by Lawrence Dupuis & Jonathan Barcant
The documentary 'Grassroots4LaVie' captures the Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) project which was implemented by the Inter-American Institute for Corporation on Agriculture (IICA) in partnership with IAMovement and the University of Florida between 2020-2023
The project was carried out across 4 Caribbean countries - Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica, Saint Lucia and Trinidad & Tobago, building off of other initiatives ongoing since 2014, which have aimed to reintroduce and spread indigenous knowledge about vetiver grass as a multi-faceted green infrastructure and bioengineering tool that can aid with a host of soil and water related challenges, such as landslides, infrastructure damage and loss and soil-water degradation. The need for cost effective, green and scalable solutions to these challenges has become more urgent in recent years due to more extreme weather, such as hurricanes and historical rainfall events driven by a changing climate - such as Hurricanes Maria and Irma which ravaged multiple Caribbean islands in 2018, and where Dominica saw almost 10,000 landslides during Hurricane Maria alone.
The deep and fibrous root system of vetiver grass can reach to 10-feet deep in the first 2-years, making it very useful for slope stabilization, erosion control, soil and water conservation - and a variety of other related benefits, such as topsoil mulching in agriculture, groundwater recharge, flood mitigation, sustainable handicrafts development, and carbon sequestration. The fragrant roots are also used to make vetiver essential oil, an ingredient in over 40% of perfumes produced worldwide. The Vetiver Education & Empowerment Project (VEEP) model has been used to share this knowledge over the years since its initial development in 2016-17.
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