Train
Fiction, France, Normandy Notebook[multilanguage_switcher]The short story entitled Le Train which you can read on the…
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Gardeners beware: labels can lie
Blog, Features, Articles, France[multilanguage_switcher]56.9% of pesticides* tested on the French market do not comply with regulations, according to figures published today by the French Economics Ministry. ** Most anomalies refer to gardening products with inadequate labeling …
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Changing Legislation: Agro-Chemicals in France
Blog, Features, Articles, France[multilanguage_switcher]New legislation comes into force this January in France concerning what is commonly referred to as «Les Phytos». ‘Phytos’ are phyto-sanitary products which eliminate plant diseases and insects. They are also known as agro-c…
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Isolation and Reciprocity
Blog, Features, Articles, France, Normandy NotebookThere is much talk of desertification of the countryside in France, with people leaving for the big towns and cities; doctors are difficult to find in small communities, jobs are rare, and city lights…
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The Royal Jack and the Knight of Malta
Blog, Features, Articles, France[multilanguage_switcher]‘Base muleteers of France… dare not take up arms like gentlemen!’ (Shakespeare, 1 Henry VI, III.ii.68.)
Mules and muleteers have played a key role in the world’s economic growth; without their hard work, stam…
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Mess, manure, and anaerobic digesters
Blog, Features, Articles, France, Normandy NotebookA messy subject, but important for our environment and economics. Manure is still massively under-exploited. Alone, it is a fertilizer full of pathogens which get spread back onto the fields. But put through a methane digester under anaerobic c…
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France's environmental dilemma
Blog, Features, Articles, France, Normandy NotebookGreat 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…
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France votes in ban on neonicotinoids
Blog, Features, Articles, FranceThe 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
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Glyphosate: the War on Weeds
Blog, Features, Articles, France, Normandy Notebook[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…
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I'm All Right Jack. What the French say about Brexit.
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