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France’s agricultural land fast diminishing despite environmental policies

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Where have all the crops gone?  And the cows?  A vast stretch of farmland up here in our part of Normandy has been laid waste in the next village, the earth churned up in places and, elsewhere, smoothed out like a pall under the autumn sky.

Pall i…

By ajh October 27, 2018
In France, News & features

France’s environmental dilemma

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Great laws; too bad they’re not applied

Two expert reports on the state of the environment in France were published this July, one by the French National Agency for Health Security Anses (Agence nation…

By ajh September 28, 2016
In France, News & features, Normandy Notebook

France votes in ban on neonicotinoids

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The ban in France on neonicotinoids takes effect on 1st September 2018.  Dispensations for farmers will be possible up to July 2020.  Industrial giants Bayer and Syngenta warn of economic and agricultural deadlock while there are no plausible

By ajh July 24, 2016
In France, News & features
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