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Food Safety: pesticide residues - or not - in your food?

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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…

By ajh June 30, 2019
In News & features

Return of the Normande and the Camembert Wars

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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…

By ajh May 19, 2019
In News & features, Normandy Notebook

Notre Dame de Paris

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[caption id="attachment_3540" align="aligncenter" width="269"] Photo Carlos Delgado; CC-BY-SA[/caption]
By ajh April 15, 2019
In France, Poetry

Devolution: Europe’s proposed new agricultural policy

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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 …

By ajh March 25, 2019
In France, News & features

International Women’s Day : Women Farmers in France

0 Corinne Delhom, market gardener in the Haute-Garonne.  Photo: La Ruche qui dit Oui

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…
By ajh March 8, 2019
In France, News & features

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