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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Since the beginning of December, the UN has been conducting an intense awareness campaign to warn about pollution and land degradation (#StopSoilPollution). It draws up a worrying report that could put a large part of humanity at risk. Indeed, degraded soils become irrecoverable in less than a generation. Pollution
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Researchers say better forest and soil management could play a major role in combating climate change. Their conclusion is based on the most comprehensive description to date of how greenhouse gas emissions can be
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Les inondations qui ont frappé la France ces derniers jours ont pris dans certaines régions une tournure catastrophique, noyant tout sur leur passage. S’il faut attribuer ces phénomènes extrêmes aux pluies diluviennes qui n’ont cessé de tomber pendant des jours, ces dernières n’expliquent pas tout. Les sols agricoles dégradés par
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