The national Federation for organic agriculture in France, the FNAB, has issued a call to the French Government and the EU to ban huge organic chicken farming. In 2021 an update on the European rules…
The idea of 12 month a year production of organic tomatoes, grown in heated poly tunnels seems completely counter intuitive to me, but not it seems to our friends over at the FNSEA, basically the…
The Confederation Paysanne have just published their Manuel d’auto-défense pour les paysannes et paysans. It is a guide to the rather confusing rules and laws that govern the production, transformation and sales of aromatic and…
Philip H. Howard post on the Global Seed Industry Changes Since 2013 makes frightening reading. The assorted merges and amalgamation means that now the Big 4 companies now control 60% of the world’s seeds supply….
The company Colas has officially withdrawn their planning permission request for the Ferrals Lezignan Corbieres Bitumine Factory it was announced today, 13th September 2018. This comes one week before there was to be an official…
France is Europe’s largest cereal producer,it is also Europe’s largest consumer of pesticides. Pesticide use, despite the talk of green alternatives, is on the increase in France.. Around a fifth of all Europe’s cereals are…
Organic production in France continued its rapid increase both in the farming sector and the organic processing sector in 2017. Organic Production in France was greatly aided by the strong growth in the French domestic…
The French Organic Market 2017 is taken from Agence Bio 2017 report. The link to download the entire French Organic Market Report 2017 , in French naturally, is at the bottom of this article. French…
Organic wine production allows the use of copper sulfate. This article by Andrew Porterfield piqued my interest. Far more toxic than glyphosate: Copper sulfate, used by organic and conventional farmers, cruises to European reauthorization Porterfield…
Apple, the iconic technology company that rules the hip mobile phone market, and who’s rather byzantine financial structures has recently led the EU to demand it pays back 14 billion euros in state support from…
