The growing use of pesticides throughout the world brings about hundreds of millions of cases of acute poisoning every year, particularly of farmers, and dramatic health consequences that constitute an infringement of rights. Consumers too are increasingly contaminated.
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18 May 2023 – Agrochemicals: French authorities undisturbed by evidence on negative impact of industrial agriculture – This illustrates well that the French food policy is inconsistent and that it lacks totally of a vision. [read]
15 December 2022 – Pollinators are declining rapidly – Rather than protecting them, some are getting mobilized (and invest) for replacing them! Why bother about organizing the transition towards sustainable food systems, when it is possible to make profits by selling technological “solutions” to “solve” the issue of pollinators? [read]
16 October 2021 – Public support to agriculture has been promoting unhealthy and polluting products and generating more inequality in the world – A transition to more sustainable food systems (economically, socially and environmentally) will require a total reengineering of current support policies. [read]
10 January 2021 – Mexico, first Latin American country to ban GMO maize and glyphosate – A ban that represents a real challenge for the country, because of its many implications. [read]
23 September 2020 – Farmers: poisoned lives – Two testimonies demonstrate the difficulties met by new rural dwellers, particularly if they farm differently from local farmers. [read]
21 January 2020 – Pesticides: an issue that poisons our agriculture – In France, the use of pesticides is on the increase. The solution is not in a quest for new, less dangerous, molecules but in an in-depth transformation of agricultural systems and their practices. [read]
11 June 2019 – Protecting our health and environment – Is justice to substitute rules and regulations? In the face of the inability of Parliaments and Governments to take appropriate measures, consumers and citizens have been obliged to invoke the third power : Justice. [read]
28 April 2019 – Spain: strawberries with a strong taste of sex and pesticides… Until recently, strawberries produced in Spain were known to have, by lack of taste of fruit, a strong taste of pesticide. We now discover they also have a strong taste of sex… [read]
13 August 2018 – Monsanto case: a result that does not solve the problem and illustrates the perverse nature of the so-called “consumer protection system” – Winning cases is not enough; what is needed is to change the rules and implement them effectively. [read]
5 August 2018 – The use of pesticides still on the increase in France – Data for 2016-1017 show a growth of 12.4% compared to 2009, while the objective was to reduce the use of pesticides by 50% between 2008 and 2018. [read]
5 May 2018 – Is France world champion of food sustainability? By obtaining a food sustainability index of 74.8%, France ranks first among the 34 countries for which EIU and BCFN computed this index. But the French food system remains under threat of a series of very worrying processes. [read]
September 2018 – The global food crunch: myth or reality? A review of evidence on what matters for food production to help readers to make their opinion on this critical issue. [read]
April 2017 – Food, Environment and Health [read]
25 April 2017 – To eat more fruits and vegetables is fine. But which ones? Did you know that in France, apples are treated more than 35 times? [read]
15 April 2016 – The European Union and glyphosate: an illustration of one of the principles that govern our society – The resolution adopted by the European Parliamant on glyphosate illustrates well the principle of ‘privatising profits, socialising costs’ that often govern decisions taken by political leaders. [read]
11 February 2015 – A new generation of GMOs based on the RNA interference technology evades regulation and is likely to flood the US market. What about the rest of the world? [read]
3 February 2015 – Nano-pesticides: opportunity or new risk? In recent years, big agrochemical firms have invested large sums of money in the development of nano-pesticides [read]
8 March 2014 – The large corporations multinational corporations in charge of our agri-food system…: upstream corporations – In 2010, multinational corporations weighed more than 25% of world GDP. For agricultural inputs, a handful of companies control the market and promote products which often have an exorbitant environmental and health cost. [read]