A provocative documentary which will look into the food and farming sectors is due to be released this coming week.

'This Good Earth', a controversial eco documentary created by Bridport-based director Robert Golden, will be released on Thursday, January 21.

The documentary explores the ways we farm and eat and the impact it has on the planet, with a focus on the state of the UK’s food and farming system.

To mark the occasion, those involved in the project have dubbed the release date as 'This Good Earth Day'.

Organisers say it is not to be confused with the Earth Day, which falls on April 22 annually.

A spokesman for the film said: "The climate change calendar now has a new date in it – This Good Earth Day on January 21st.

“This Good Earth Day is not officially affiliated to Earth Day which has been running since 1970, but This Good Earth Day and that Good Earth Day share exactly the same aims and concerns.”

“The excellent people at earthday.org say on their site that we should helping to 'make every day earth day' and they're right. So we are helping to do that by adding January 21st to the calendar of all who care passionately about protecting the planet”.

“Earthday.org says ‘it’s time for the world to hold sectors accountable for their role in our environmental crisis’ and that is precisely the message of This Good Earth.”

The film will be available to stream on Vimeo from 7pm on January 21. The 90-minute film aims to showcase how 'we face environmental disaster unless more ploughing is stopped' and how 'only organic farming can now safely feed the world'.

The film is shot in American-born Golden’s adopted home county of Dorset. Two years in the making, the documentary brings together farmers, scientists, ecologists and expert academics to 'contest the disturbing influence that agrochemical giants exert over the farming industry' and warns that the way we currently grow our food could 'effectively kill us' unless huge changes are made in how we treat our land.

Among the boldest claims made in the controversial film are that we are openly killing the planet and ‘secretly poisoning its people’.