Marcel Mézy, L’homme qui redonne vie à la terre, de Patrick Le Roux – Edition Rouergue, 14 octobre 2020 – 160 pages Marcel Mézy est un homme étonnant que rien ne prédestinait à un tel parcours, lui qui a commencé à observer les sols lorsqu’adolescent, il gardait les vaches de
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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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Meat consumption has become a hot topic. Over-consumed to the detriment of health and the planet, accused of all evils, of undermining animal welfare, a social and highly political subject, meat is in the red. Meat-free days, vegan fashion, health alerts, nothing...
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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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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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D’ici 2050, il faudra nourrir 10 milliards d’humains. Certains observateurs pensent que les technologies pourront aider à trouver des moyens de nourrir une population mondiale gigantesque, au même moment où le dérèglement climatique et la pollution environnementale entraîneront la dégradation des sols et limiteront l’accès à l’eau. La FoodTech a
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Résultat d’un an de réflexions collectives avec des acteurs majeurs du secteur de l’agroalimentaire, un rapport de l’association Noé propose 6 recommandations pour transformer de manière ambitieuse leurs filières d’approvisionnement et participer ainsi à restaurer la biodiversité des milieux agricoles. Rassembler acteurs de l’agroécologie et des filières industrielles dans
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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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Defence Airbus and Space, The Forest Trust (TFT) and SarVision have jointly developed an innovative service that allows food and beverage companies to provide evidence of the implementation of their commitments to environmental protection and more specifically the fight against deforestation. After 14
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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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All California wines are said to contain glyphosate. Fourteen of Germany's greatest beers, too. The active principle of Roundup, Monsanto's powerful weed killer, glyphosate is considered by many studies to be highly dangerous to health. Everybody is in turmoil. And meanwhile, the Commission
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The acquisition by a Chinese company of 1,700 hectares of farmland in the Indre region, in the heart of the French cereal basin, is causing concern among Berry farmers and the authorities responsible for rural development. A Chinese management fund based in Hong Kong has bought three cereal farms in the last year, namely
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The Ministry of Agriculture revealed the not very glorious figure on 9 March: far from decreasing, the use of pesticides is still increasing in France! A long and lasting trend that nothing seems to stop, despite efforts to explain the dangers for man, health, the planet, biodiversity, of these pesticides.
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That's it: the European Food Safety Authority, EFSA, has just made public its long-awaited assessment of the controversial pesticide glyphosate, better known in France under the label Roundup, Monsanto's flagship herbicide, whose authorisation expires soon. On the basis of this report, it is now up to the European Commission to decide.
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Les besoins en blé devraient augmenter de 60% d’ici 2050 pour répondre à la demande d’une population mondiale grandissante (9 milliards d’humains prévus sur la planète). Une coordination des recherches et un renforcement des investissements au niveau international sont nécessaires pour accroître la production de blé mondiale tout en prenant en compte
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