30 % de valeur nutritive en moins sur certains aliments essentiels comme le riz. Comment est-ce possible ? Une nouvelle étude confirme que l’excès de dioxyde de carbone, principal gaz à effet de serre contribuant au réchauffement climatique, fait chuter la concentration de vitamines dans les plantes. Déjà deux milliards d’humains
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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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Le ministre de l’économie Bruno Lemaire a annoncé ce 8 janvier, contre toute attente, son intention de ne pas interdire l’additif alimentaire E171 plus communément connu sou le nom de dioxyde de titane. La décision est reportée à plus tard, quand les preuves scientifiques seront réunies de la dangerosité de
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Food safety issues are increasingly on the minds of consumers when they shop. They want to be increasingly informed about the content, quality and source of the products they buy. A plethora of applications has emerged in recent years, independent of the industry and the consumer.
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They grow French 100 % cotton in the heart of the Gers When people ask you what the Gers has in store for you - especially at this time of year - what do you think about? Well, make no mistake, the Gers, from now on it will also be ... cotton. Yohan de Wit,
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Agriculture biologique, commerce équitable, … quelles différences et pour quels avantages ? La recherche en économie et sociologie rurale rassemble derrière les termes « réseaux agri-alimentaires alternatifs » et « systèmes alimentaires alternatifs » des initiatives aussi diverses que le commerce équitable, l’agriculture biologique, les circuits courts de proximité ou les
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After the approval of the European Union, it is now the turn of the American justice system to validate the marriage between two giants: the American pesticides and seeds giant Monsanto and the German chemicals conglomerate Bayer. A union sealed for the astronomical sum of 66 billion dollars. Plant protection products, seeds,
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Microsoft's multi-billionaire philanthropist has donated $40 million (€32 million) to a team of British scientists. Mission: to create a cow that can produce more milk and survive in hot climates. The researchers aim to design, through genetic modification, a
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Agricultural education, which has more than 450,000 pupils, students, trainees and apprentices, will have to adapt to the changes to come between now and 2030, taking into account the development of "green" professions; and this, despite serious unknowns on the evolution of agriculture. This is what a government study indicates. "Support for
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It is this Thursday, December 21, that the verdict of the "Etats généraux de l'alimentation" will fall: the release of pesticides, the law on trade negotiations and the financing of agricultural investments. These decisions are eagerly awaited by farmers, industrialists, distributors and environmental associations, in the expectation of an assessment, some measures of which have already been announced.
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Les convertis au végétarisme se multiplient en Occident, plus particulièrement aux États-Unis, en Europe et en Australie. À l’inverse, on remarque une croissance de la consommation de viande dans certains pays, comme la Chine ou l’Inde. Que se passerait-il si, au cours d’une nuit, le monde entier devenait végétarien ?
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Two years of debate, a frantic NGO campaign and a vote at the end of the suspense: the glyphosate soap opera has put the spotlight on complex and contested decision-making processes in the European Union, which promises to learn from them. Opponents of
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Thousands of U.S. farmers filed lawsuits in 2017 against Monsanto and dicamba, a herbicide marketed by the group. Dicamba is a volatile herbicide that spreads to nearby fields and devastates almost everything in its path. You thought you knew about glyphosate? There's something better: dicamba! The services of
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Nicolas Hulot a affirmé sa volonté d’interdire le glyphosate dans les trois ans, faisant écho à la tribune de 54 députés LREM, à deux jours du vote de la Commission Européenne sur un éventuel renouvellement de la licence du fameux herbicide pour dix ans. MISE A JOUR DU 25 OCTOBRE
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Since this Thursday, September 14, on the radio, on TV, in the newspapers, we only talk about that: the NGO Future Generations would have discovered glyphosate residues in our corn flakes and about thirty foods of our daily life. This product, which is considered carcinogenic, is a widespread herbicide.
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Out of 18 sweet food products sold in stores, 100 % of the products contain nanoparticles, none of which are labelled as such. However, the food industry assures that it does not use nanoparticle-based ingredients in its sweets, cakes and other treats... The food industry assures that it does not use ingredients with nanoparticles in its sweets, cakes and other treats... The food industry assures that it does not use ingredients with nanoparticles in its sweets, cakes and other treats... The food industry assures that it does not use ingredients with nanoparticles in its sweets, cakes and other treats... The food industry assures that it does not use ingredients with nanoparticles in its sweets, cakes and other treats... The food industry assures that it does not use ingredients with nanoparticles in its sweets, cakes and other treats... The food industry assures that it does not use ingredients with nanoparticles in its sweets, cakes and other treats... The food industry assures that it does not use ingredients with nanoparticles in its sweets, cakes and other treats.
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A symbolic tribunal against Monsanto was held in The Hague (Netherlands) from 14 to 16 October 2016. Objectives: to address the legal responsibility of companies and states for global environmental degradation in the light of existing international law; and to convince of the need to introduce
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"The lawsuit that opens today is fictitious, but the law is real! "Corinne Lepage, who opens the two days of the Monsanto Tribunal in The Hague on 15 and 16 October, explains the scope of the legal exercise. "To ask questions in law because the law is insufficient to
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From 14 to 16 October 2016, the Monsanto Tribunal, an international civil society mobilization of historic proportions, will expose Monsanto's toxic products and the crimes attributed to this company against human health and the environment. Five eminent experts will be called upon to judge the multinational company.
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En France, plus d’un million de professionnels du secteur agricole sont potentiellement exposés aux pesticides. L’Anses s’est autosaisie en 2011 pour mener une expertise collective visant à identifier, évaluer et caractériser les expositions aux pesticides des personnes travaillant dans l’agriculture. Dans l’avis qu’elle publie ce 25 juillet 2016, l’Anses recommande
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