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…
Food Safety: pesticide residues - or not - in your food? Read Post »
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 …
Devolution: Europe’s proposed new agricultural policy Read Post »
A 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…
Farmers and Beekepers together ? Read Post »
The 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…
Air Pollution: Is Paris Gasping? And the rest of the world? Read Post »
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…
Neonicotinoids : EU proposes stricter bans Read Post »
[multilanguage_switcher]France’s Glyphosate and Alternative Farming Read Post »
A 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…
Mess, manure, and anaerobic digesters Read Post »
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I'm All Right Jack. What the French say about Brexit. Read Post »
If you went down to our woods eight years ago you’d have heard and seen ten beehives 
amongst the birches. …
To Bee or not to Bee Read Post »