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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

Neonicotinoids : EU proposes stricter bans

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The European Commission proposed on 27 April a ban on the use  – in open air – of three neonicotinoids clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam.

These substances have already been under partial ban for several years and have been subject of muc…

By ajh April 29, 2018
In News & features

Glyphosate: the War on Weeds

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[multilanguage_switcher]The five-acre field up our road stretched out like a yellow pall under the sky, desiccated.  The local farmer had sprayed it before re-ploughing and sowing his next crop. He sprayed it with glyphosate – what dosage we’ll ne…

By ajh July 12, 2016
In France, News & features, Normandy Notebook
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