Organic has never been debated and has imposed itself in people's minds and practices as a matter of course. Last June, the Organic Agency, which has been scrutinizing this market for several years, published an impressive number of records. Explosion in the number of organic farms, expansion of the range of crops that have become even more important in the future.
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Farmers, cooks, craftsmen, intellectuals, scientists, artists, ..., all actors of food democracy, or simply citizen-eaters, are invited to meet on the fringes of the official Agriculture Fair. On the initiative of Alimentation Générale, KissKissBankBank, la Ruche qui dit Oui !, as for the other editions, the festival Sortons l'Agriculture
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Organic agriculture, new players and places of consumption, food origin and traceability, health and nutrition, the importance of animal welfare and consumer expectations... the catering sector is undergoing major changes. At a time when barely more than 1 in 10 French people perceive the efforts of the hotel sector
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We don't even know what to call them anymore: fake food, fake foods, junk food archetypes, highly processed foods have invaded the supermarkets. Too sweet, too fatty, full of chemical and synthetic products, they increase the risk of cardiovascular and cerebral diseases, but also of diabetes or heart disease.
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A new media campaign called All about organic is launched this Thursday, October 3 by the network Les Entreprises Bio Engagées. Objective ? To answer questions such as Are pesticides allowed or not in organic farming? Is organic food really better for your health ?
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How do we engage students in a career that serves the ecological transition and the common good? This is the challenge revealed by a new kind of partnership, that between an engineering school and a startup that has developed a connected greenhouse to produce its own food. Explanations. More and more
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Against a backdrop of a crisis of confidence in supermarkets and the unprecedented industrialisation of the organic food sector, the French are more than ever demanding transparency. To help them see more clearly, La Fourche, an online organic store, in partnership with Etiquettable, a collaborative application of
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They're cows like all the others. They graze quietly and watch the trains go by. Yet these 120 dairy cows at the experimental farm in Trévarez, in Finistère, are "low carbon" cattle, the subject of meticulous experiments to reduce their impact on the climate. 14 % of gases at
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Harold Vasselin's latest documentary "Gens des blés" will be released on DVD on September 5, 2019. It is a story of wheat and Man. Pierre is a biotechnologist, Florent is an organic farmer, Isabelle is an agronomist. Each of them works on the creation of new wheat, but they do it in a different way.
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Foodwatch alert: The Foreign Affairs Committee rolls out the red carpet for the AACC, two days before its vote in the National Assembly on July 17 to ratify the Europe-Canada trade agreement. The headlong rush for free trade agreements continues at full speed, just a few days after the announcement of the agreement.
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Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned Indian scholar, environmental activist and author of over twenty books. She has been involved in popular movements against genetic engineering worldwide and has led many successful campaigns against various multinational corporations and international institutions seeking to
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By November 2019, all cities in France will have to offer a vegetarian meal once a week in all school canteens, in accordance with the Agriculture and Food Law promulgated in November 2018, with the aim of reducing inequalities in access to quality and sustainable food (1). And by 2022,
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In France, the current industrial agricultural model is impoverishing biodiversity, depriving farmers of the ecological services provided by nature and ultimately threatening our ability to feed ourselves. We must therefore accelerate the agro-ecological transition from input-dependent agriculture. To do this, the Noé association is asking, through
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Organic farming is definitely on the up and up. The latest figures published by the Organic Agency, which has been scrutinising this market for several years, set an impressive series of records. But behind these abstract figures, there are some very concrete realities. The organic origins, the organic products grown by farmers and the organic
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After a first edition in February 2018, the NGO Générations futures published on Thursday, June 6, a new report on pesticide residues in fruits and vegetables consumed in France, based on 13,300 official data produced by the French General Directorate of Repression.
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The European Union is increasing the number of bilateral free trade agreements, in all opacity. This is the analysis and point of view of the foodwatch association, which defends the rights of consumer citizens to greater transparency in the food sector and access to healthy food. A few days before the European elections, the organisation
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With one million species threatened with extinction, nature's decline is unprecedented. This is the conclusion of the Global Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) unveiled at UNESCO Headquarters on 6 May 2019. Alternatives and initiatives
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Ce premier opus des Rencontres Internationales de l’Agriculture du Vivant s’est révélé un événement unique qui a présenté une démarche globale, totale : relier santé des sols, qualité des aliments, pour “une seule santé” de la Planète. Plus de 1700 auditeurs ont suivi les cinq jours de ces Rencontres, dont 65 %
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Between a tomato grown in greenhouses, without much taste but very cheap, and an expensive organic tomato, reddened by the sun in the open ground, more and more fruit and vegetable growers are testing a third way: the guaranteed "zero pesticide residue". With a small label
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Alors que vient de s’ouvrir le SIA – Salon International de l’agriculture – ce samedi 23 février à Paris, les portes des Rencontres internationales de l’agriculture du vivant se sont refermées à la Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, avec le résultat des Trophées de cette édition 2019. Ces Trophées de
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