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Agricultural Land Prices: France and Europe 2019
http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do?dataset=apri_lprc&lang=en
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Notre Dame de Paris
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Photo Carlos Delgado; CC-BY-SA[/caption]
Photo Carlos Delgado; CC-BY-SA[/caption]
Devolution: Europe’s proposed new agricultural policy
For farmers up here in Normandy, Brussels - whose Commission regulates farming practices throughout Europe - seems very far away. And so does Paris. They say that neither the European Commission nor the French government have a realistic notion of ...
International Women’s Day : Women Farmers in France
To mark international women’s day today, here are some figures for women farmers in France, just been published by the French agricultural social security body the MSA. Figures are for 2017:
- One out of four farm managers in France is a w...
News & features
Agricultural Land Prices: France and Europe 2019
http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do?dataset=apri_lprc&lang=en
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Food Safety: pesticide residues - or not - in your food?
The European Food Safety Authority EFSA has just published its 2017 annual report on pesticide residues in food in EU Member States, Iceland and Norway.
Whereas t...
Return of the Normande and the Camembert Wars
My horse gave me a lesson in more ways than one not long ago. I was riding her down a beautiful stretch here in Normandy when suddenly she started hyperventilating and twisted her body round as if to turn back. I coaxed her on to no avail and, with...
Notre Dame de Paris
[caption id="attachment_3540" align="aligncenter" width="269"] Photo Carlos Delgado; CC-BY-SA[/caption]
Photo Carlos Delgado; CC-BY-SA[/caption]
Fiction
Train
[multilanguage_switcher]The short story entitled Le Train which you can read on the...
Arctic Shaman's Seance
The snow fell quietly, covering the settlement in a thick white blanket. The shaman had told Okwana she’d recognize the singing hut by the large narwhal ivory which jutted up out of the roof; it whistled when the wind raced over the ice, he’d said. ...
