By Robert Levesque November 2019. All over Europe there is an issue with land concentration. The number of farms in France has halved over 25 years. Official figures underestimate the extent of land concentration in…
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After a depressing first round the relief of the second round elections here in France is overwhelming. A strong sense of disaster averted was my first thought this morning. Marine Le Pen”s remodelled all new…
Well that did not go very well in the French elections. I was initially very pleased to see that the turnout was the best in forty years, and the registration for postal votes very high….
Paris, le 28/02/2023. Une semaine après le rendez-vous des représentants des filières bio et des interprofessions avec le cabinet du Ministre de l’agriculture, les seules annonces ont été faites en catimini et sont loin de répondre…
Mobilisation PRINTEMPS POITEVIN le 25 mars 2023 La méga-mobilisation contre les méga-bassines aura lieu le samedi 25 mars dans le Poitou. A l’instar du Printemps maraîchin qui a eu lieu il y a un an,…
Organic sales drop in France in 2021 by 1.3% according to the latest figures for L’Agence Bio who publish an annual report on the state of the organic market in France. This drop is the…
La Guerre des Graines is now 8 years old but the key issues raised, the domination of the seed markets by a handful of huge multinational companies, the accelerating of sterile highly productive clone seeds,…
2022 AgroParisTech Graduation ceremony They say it better than I can, product of a good education and all that. English subtitles included.
The State of Agriculture in Occitanie 2020 report confirms the region as Frances’s second most important agricultural region. With 64;200 farms providing employment 194,000 a full time or seasonal workers, 7.4% of the working population…
The Ministry of Agriculture have just released the latest figures on the state of French agriculture 2020. In the last 10 years France has lost just over 100,000 farms, from 490,000 farms in 2010 to…
