The ecological emergency focuses on climate change. This is legitimate, but it leads to a simplifying obsession: energy is scarce, so we must save it. In France... Lire la suite...
Proposals to build a more reasoned agri-food chain are often associated with a risk of food insecurity for emerging countries or with deprivation for developed ... Lire la suite...
Established in 1980, Finnfund is a Finnish public investment fund that supports projects led by private institutions in developing countries. The company recent... Lire la suite...
Julien Lesage is a biochemist. He founded Hubcycle in 2016, a recycling startup that has just raised €3.5 million for its business of manufacturing cosmetic or ... Lire la suite...
CIRAD has studied the state of the cocoa sector, which is facing a multitude of challenges: climate change, deforestation, poverty, diseases...
It is urgent to... Lire la suite...
By: Noureddine Radouai
There is no good time to launch a war. Armed conflicts are always horrible at any time. However, the war in Ukraine broke out in the w... Lire la suite...
The French dairy brand is interested in edible oil and vegetable proteins from the Pongamia tree (also known as Milletia Pinnata), processed by Terviva, a young... Lire la suite...
FAO has recently joined forces with the International Bamboo and Rattan Organization (INBAR) to boost the cultivation and use of bamboo in Africa. More than a h... Lire la suite...
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is a subsidiary of the World Bank. Its capital is held by the 185 member countries. It finances and/or acquires stak... Lire la suite...
Three young Malians recently won the Agri-Hackathon, a competition that took place last May and focused on the desertification of the Sahel. Soil degradation ... Lire la suite...
The seashore is a few dozen kilometers away, but those are salmon swimming in a large saltwater pond in Saitama, a city of one million people located in the s... Lire la suite...
Gaïago, a biotechnology startup, has succeeded in raising 13 million euros to deploy its star product, a revitalizing biostimulant for soils.
Already the inven... Lire la suite...
Algeria is a large consumer of wheat, which it traditionally buys from France for 60% of its imports. The Russian commercial ambitions risk denting this histor... Lire la suite...
Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos have both decided to invest in the company Nature's Fynd, which is likely to go public soon. With Al Gore, they are among the main fin... Lire la suite...
Since the 1970s, vegetarians have tried to launch meat substitutes based on vegetable proteins. It is only in the last twenty years that innovative companies h... Lire la suite...
At the Feyzin refinery in southeastern France, a new kind of biofuel is produced from grape marc or lees. These are distilled, dehydrated and mixed with an et... Lire la suite...
The manufacture of cocaine has a strong impact on the environmental quality of natural areas. Its culture nibbles away at wooded areas. If a gram of cocaine c... Lire la suite...
Less meat, more fruit and vegetables, this is the objective of the Eurodeputies with their project to regulate the consumption of foodstuffs by a variable VAT a... Lire la suite...
On August 18, the European Union authorized the return of animal proteins and the introduction of insects in feed for pigs and poultry.
This relaxation will ... Lire la suite...
Between conflict, health crisis and climate change, eradicating hunger is looking like a pipe dream. The multiplication of crises is dramatically increasing the... Lire la suite...
Lindsay Matthews, a researcher at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, has conducted experimental work on cattle farms.
Based on the observation that c... Lire la suite...
Atlantic salmon accounts for 90% of the world's farmed salmon.
Caught or farmed, it is produced at a rate of almost 40 kilos per second, according to Planeto... Lire la suite...
The Indian government aims to reform Indian agriculture to make it more productive. To this end, it has signed a partnership with the three major American com... Lire la suite...
Some farmers have decided to invest in social networks to share the daily life of a farm, to praise the new sustainable agriculture and to reassure consumers ab... Lire la suite...
There is a great deal of work that highlights the impact of agriculture on biodiversity, at least on the surface. According to researchers from INRAE and CNRS... Lire la suite...
On September 16, the price of rapeseed for the production of rapeseed oil passed the €600 per ton mark, compared to €390 a year earlier.
Several phenomena ha... Lire la suite...
Researchers from the French institute INRAE are observing an experimental pesticide-free farm, called Domaine d'Epoisses, in the suburbs of Dijon, France.
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Coveted or reviled, palm oil represents a quarter of all vegetable oils. The market for this oil must meet strong demand while overcoming numerous obstacles: L... Lire la suite...
Land Matrix enters phase 3. This international program tracks the volume of land transactions. It is piloted by members from civil society, research and the pro... Lire la suite...
After vegetable oils and sugar cane, wheat straw is a new alternative fuel to petroleum derivatives.
Researchers, supported by the National Renewable Energy Ce... Lire la suite...
The shortage of fertilizer is leading to a drop in production, which could further increase food prices, which have already risen by more than 30% in one year... Lire la suite...
Greeneye Technology, launches a new intelligent spraying equipment. A precision tool, garlic optimizes the use of chemical inputs in crops.
The Israeli compa... Lire la suite...
Green hydrogen is on everyone's mind regarding tomorrow's mobility, whether it is road, rail, air or sea travel. This energy is presented as an alternative to f... Lire la suite...
Since the summer of 2020, the price curve for cereals has been steadily rising. Various concomitant factors are at play: the Niña phenomenon, the pandemic, Chin... Lire la suite...
Born in 2017, the project led by the Avignon-based start-up Biomimetic consists in optimizing the breeding of black soldier flies to produce... Lire la suite...
Phosphorus (P) deficiency represents a major mineral nutrient deficiency in agricultural soils affecting crop production. Plants absorb P mainly in the form of ... Lire la suite...