Tag: Agriculture and Fisheries
Mushrooms in Paris: the story of a heritage in danger
The real button mushroom could disappear. Its name has never been registered and therefore applies to any agraricus bisporus, the Latin name for the species, regardless of its origin and…
Fascines, swales, hedges… these ancestral natural solutions to better deal with floods
After the storm Boris that shook Central Europe last weekend, it is time to take stock. Large areas will have to be rebuilt. While it is difficult to adapt to…
‘Locally managed marine areas’ lead to record catches for octopus fishermen
In Madagascar, efforts to preserve marine resources are bearing fruit. Vezo fishermen in the Great Southwest are seeing remarkable success this year: they have caught a volume of octopuses never…
Like the Bara, a researcher proposes to treat locusts as “a plant” and not as a scourge
A better study of the customs and beliefs of the different Malagasy peoples could allow us to act more pertinently in terms of environmental preservation and disaster management. This is…
South Sudan braces for worsening flooding after Nile dams open
Experts are warning that flooding in South Sudan will worsen, with September and October expected to be the worst months. Large areas of the country have already been submerged since…
France: “The current wheat harvest is the lowest since 1983”
French harvests are at their lowest in forty years. Complicated for wheat while the harvests are expected to be lower than last year. In market gardens too, arboriculturists are panicked…
Tigray farmers struggle to recover from war
Twenty months after the end of the war, Tigray, in northern Ethiopia, still faces immense challenges. The conflict pitted the Tigrayans against the Ethiopian central government, allied with neighboring Eritrea…
At least six dead in clashes between herders and farmers in the south of the country
At least six people have been killed and four others injured in new intercommunal clashes between farmers in the Goré sub-prefecture of Logone Oriental province, in southern Chad. As is…
Canada allows cod fishing to reopen on Newfoundland island
For nearly a millennium, fishermen frequented the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, a large Canadian island known for its cod stocks. Until everything collapsed in the late 1990s, and the Canadian…