Pollutions diffuses, atteintes à la biodiversité liées à l’usage des pesticides, émissions de CO2, mais aussi faiblesse des revenus de nombreux agriculteurs… bien que l’agriculture conventionnelle assure notre sécurité alimentaire, elle présente aujourd’hui de nombreuses et graves vulnérabilités. Des fragilités qui se renforcent avec le dérèglement climatique, synonyme de sécheresses
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How do you protect crops from diseases, insects and other pests when pesticides have a serious sulphur smell? Scientific research proposes to modify plants using genetic editing resources. Biotechnology advocates swear that these modified plants are not GMOs and
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A group of German Green MEPs supports the use of genetic engineering techniques, which they believe could make a significant contribution to sustainable development. This is a novel approach that runs counter to the position that environmentalists usually take on this subject. In a forum on 10 June, the 22 signatories - who
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L’agence Rumeur Publique organise une matinée de réflexion le mercredi 25 mars, de 8h30 à 12h30, pour confronter la parole des acteurs de l’écosystème (agriculteurs, pouvoirs publics, entreprises technologiques, fédérations, ONG, financeurs et assureurs) sur les solutions face à l’urgence d’adapter l’agriculture aux défis d’aujourd’hui et de demain. Trois tables
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::: 28/02 – À l’occasion de sa journée de conférence dédiée aux propositions agronomiques de l’agroécologie, le vendredi 28 février, « Pour une Agriculture du Vivant » réunit experts et acteurs de terrain lors d’une table-ronde sur les enjeux et la méthode pour « reterritorialiser » l’enjeu carbone. L’objectif est
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::: 22/02 - Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist Matt Apuzzo has carried out a lengthy investigation of the CAP for the New York Times. He will be the guest of the Festival Sortons l'Agriculture du Salon (1) on Saturday 22 February 2020 from 11am to 1pm. His name is Matt Apuzzo,
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A major survey conducted by the NGOs Unearthed-Greenpeace and Public Eye reveals that five of the world's largest pesticide manufacturers derive more than one-third of their revenues from the sale of chemicals with proven hazards to human and animal health and the environment. The Giants
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Since the end of the Second World War, and especially since 1981, a situation rent had been set up for the benefit of a club of a few agrochemical and agricultural giants such as Bayer and Monsanto, under the pretext of "ensuring security for users",
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Following the success of the first session in 2019, AgroParisTech and ADEME, with the support of Agreenium, are launching a second session enriched by the MOOC "Towards the environmental performance of food products". Aimed at players and companies in the agri-food sector, this online course aims to help them
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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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The Earth is not only alive, it also creates life. For more than 4 billion years, the Earth has developed a rich biodiversity - an abundance of different living organisms and ecosystems - that can meet all our needs and sustain life. Thanks to biodiversity and
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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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It was not a good idea to find out this Saturday about the government's decision to set the minimum distance between homes and pesticide application areas at 5 or 10 metres. I was in the middle of reading the book "Psychology of bullshit" (1). And now we're swimming in
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Biodiversity is undergoing massive and rapid erosion: 1 million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction according to the latest IPBES report. Among the main causes is the artificialisation of land caused by urban sprawl and diffuse constructions, which destroy natural habitats and ecological continuities. It
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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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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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By 2050, there will be 10.6 billion of us on Earth. If the current dominant agricultural model persists, the planet will not be able to withstand the shock. From now on, it will be imperative for earthlings to change their food system: shift to plant-based diets, drastic reduction of food losses and waste,
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World specialists in agroforestry, an ancestral practice associating trees and crops that has been abandoned for several decades in favour of intensive agriculture, are meeting in congress this week to discuss ecological solutions to the agri-food challenge. Until May 23, researchers, farmers, scientists, political and economic decision-makers from some 100 countries are meeting,
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Precious resource, the water will run out. And, faced with the risk of drought forecast for this year 2019, after the rather severe drought of 2018, the Ministry of Ecological and Solidarity Transition wants to put in place a number of preventive and indispensable measures in France, as concern is being felt. Indeed, the
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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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