LA GUERRE DES GRAINES
Definitely worth a view, if you speak French, have high speed internet and an hour to spare. A good look at the way that the small number of agro industrial seed companies are consolidating their…
Organic News and politics
A Matter of Scale
Small-scale, agroecological farms attract UK workers, produce high yields of vegetables and deliver multiple environmental and social benefits The A Matter of Scale report, published this month, highlights how a diverse and vibrant sector of…
Organic Certification Proving a negative
Organic Certification is a weird idea. In effect we organic producers, transformers and resellers have to pay an authorised Organic Certification Organisation to prove that we do not do things, we do not use organically…
Is it time to abolish Organic Certification Organisations?
Organic Certification Organisations are strange things; not unpleasant, far from it, but strange nevertheless. Organic Certification Organisations are civil not state structures, it varies from country to country, some are charities, others companies, some associations….
French Organic Market 2016
The French organic retail market has passed the 7 billion euro mark in 2016, according to the annual Agence bio, a clear 20% growth year on year compared to 2015. The annual Baromètre Agence BIO…
‘New Scientist’ Misinterprets Organic
In a recent article for New Scientist, Michael Le Page is wrong to tell people not to eat organic if they care about the planet. He misreads the evidence, which shows organic farming is generally…
Soil degradation as big a threat to humanity as climate change
A new report published today by the Sustainable Food Trust to mark World Soil Day, explains why soil degradation is increasing and calls for it to be recognised alongside climate change, as one of the…
Les Néo Paysants
Les Néo Paysants, Gaspard d’Allens and Lucile Leclair Edition Seuil with Reporterre https://reporterre.net/ French agriculture is in plain crisis. The idyllic countryside so beloved by tourists and the French imagination is in most cases…
Organic wine in France
When I first came across organic wine it was frankly a victory of conviction over taste to drink it, but now there are some organic wines that can hold their own against most mid market…
Who owns the US organic market?
Where the US corporations lead the rest of the world follows, the organic market is no different. The US organic market is the world’s leading organic market, in 2013 Statista estimated it at 24, 347…