Tag: Agriculture and Fishing
G7 criticizes India’s decision to suspend wheat exports
India, the world’s second largest wheat producer, has decided to suspend its exports. The reason given is to maintain sufficient reserves after a 2022 harvest damaged by an exceptional heat…
Isabel Cardoso-Fonquerle, winemaker – In G major
There are stories that cannot escape our small company In Sol Majeur. That of Isabel Cardoso-Fonquerle, for example. Can you imagine, here is a look of honey that soaked its…
In Brittany, tensions between the agricultural world and environmental activists
Report France In the west of France, two visions of agriculture face each other and tensions are growing. Between farmers and industrialists advocating a conventional agricultural model on the one…
Early drought in France: “Summer rain does not have the same impact as winter rain”
The water tables which are supposed to feed the rivers when it no longer rains during the summer, are at historically low levels for the season in France. Interview with…
“Overshoot Day”: advancing major transformations sector by sector to reduce our footprint”
Each year, Global Footprint Network calculates “overshoot day” for the world. For 2022, the “overshoot day” for France falls on May 5, about 5 months earlier than in 1961. If…
French poultry affected by a major avian flu epizootic
France is facing an epizootic of rare intensity and above all of an almost unprecedented extent. More than 1,300 farms have been affected. They had to euthanize at least 15…
in the face of rising commodity prices, manufacturers allowed to “adapt”
Food and energy prices, whose rise has been exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, could remain high until 2024, estimates the World Bank. According to the institution, this is the…
Autumn processionary caterpillar: the FAO maintains its alert system
It is a scourge that appeared in 2016 on African soil. The autumn processionary caterpillar, which wreaks havoc in crops and in particular those of maize, now affects all continents.…
export wheat to meet war-related shortages in Ukraine
Russia and Ukraine are among the largest wheat exporters in the world and the war between the two countries has therefore caused this trade to fall. And this is starting…
The seaweed rush – Great report
It is a booming market which today weighs 15 billion euros in the world, and which is still largely untapped. Algae, potentially veritable green gold, suffer from a bad reputation,…