Food security and agro-strategies - Page 5

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

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

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 ?

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

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

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

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.

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

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,

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

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

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

Et si l’agriculture française devenait le premier fournisseur d’énergie renouvelable ? Car les enjeux liés à l’énergie, aux Gaz à effet de serre (GES) et au changement climatique interpellent de plus en plus les agriculteurs. Toutefois, les agriculteurs qui possèdent une quantité suffisante de déchets n’ont parfois pas les ressources financières