Notre Dame de Paris
France, Poetry
Speechless and desperately sad in front of Notre Dame in flames. This cathedral is the…
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Devolution: Europe’s proposed new agricultural policy
Blog, Features, Articles, FranceFor 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 …
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International Women’s Day : Women Farmers in France
Blog, Features, Articles, FranceTo 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…
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Young French Farmers Unite for Europe
Blog, Features, Articles, FranceCrowds throng the stand of the young French farmers’ union ‘Jeunes Agriculteurs’ at this year’s international agricultural show in Paris. An enormous panel has been erected setting out their Charter for the future of Agriculture.
Politicians and d…
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The end of glyphosate: French government online website opens to share alternatives
Blog, Features, ArticlesLe 1er février le gouvernment a mis en ligne le centre de ressources pour accompagner les agricultuers dans la sortie du glyphosate.
Vous y trouverez des techniques alternatives, ex. association de plantes compagnes gélives sur colza; la herse ét…
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France's agricultural land fast diminishing despite environmental policies
Blog, Features, Articles, FranceWhere 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…
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Hunting Season in France
France, Normandy NotebookOut for a walk this beautiful Sunday afternoon I took the lane along the corn field. The upright cornstalks tower over your head and the slight wind rustles their drying leaves – the only noise to be heard in this haven away from the urban crush. Unt…
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L'avenir de l'eau Bassin Seine-Normandie : consultation publique
Blog, Features, ArticlesFor local residents and beyond: your opinion counts.
From 2 November until 2 May 2019 : Public consultation of official documents concerning the future management of water and flooding in the Seine basin and in water courses along the Norm…
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Normandy injects €12million into ambitious Methanisation Plan
Blog, Features, Articles, France, Normandy NotebookRoads mired in muck, villagers stiffling with smells: It’s a sorry litany of stories up here in my neck of the woods in Normandy when it comes to anaerobic digesters. Normandy only has 6 such installations so far, two of which are in my neighbourhoo…
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New figures for agricultural land, France. Dirt cheap?
Blog, Features, ArticlesOfficial figures are just out – 4 July – giving the average market value of agricultural land in France (2017). Prices are in Euros per hectare (hectare = ‘are’ in French). A hectare is 10.000 square metres. Consult the grid here.
https://www.legi…
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Farmers and Beekepers together ?
Blog, Features, ArticlesA European Bee Partnership, the first ever integrated approach of its kind in Europe, was launched last Friday 29th June at the outcome of the European Parliament’s Bee Week.
The idea of the Partnersh…
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Air Pollution: Is Paris Gasping? And the rest of the world?
Blog, Features, Articles, FranceThe Eiffel Tower beckons us from a distance as we drive in to Paris on the motorway from Normandy. Her graceful shape will never cease to give me that moment’s thrill when approaching – the same thrill I had when I first arrived in this city decade…
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