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International Women’s Day : Women Farmers in France

0 Corinne Delhom, market gardener in the Haute-Garonne.  Photo: La Ruche qui dit Oui

To 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…
By ajh March 8, 2019
In France, News & features

Air Pollution: Is Paris Gasping? And the rest of the world?

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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…

By ajh June 13, 2018
In France, News & features

Water: What are you drinking… really?

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[multilanguage_switcher]Water can be declared clean and drinkable at the water treatment plant, but what about the distribution pipelines it then runs through to get to your tap?

And how much are you paying for this water?

At the price…

By ajh January 29, 2018
In France, News & features

President Macron’s ecology transition plans: mixed messages

0 France On Green Environmental Conservation and Nature Icon Pattern

[multilanguage_switcher]Mixed messages from President Macron: what exactly is his plan for France’s ecological

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By ajh May 28, 2017
In France, News & features

Bio-boom in France: from Agro-chemicals to Bio farming

0 The Normande in spring time.  Source: Stéphane Geufroi Ouest-France

[multilanguage_switcher]While the option for farmers to continue using agrochemicals remains open, we all have to remain vigilant.  The French Union for the industrial protection of plants, the UIIP<...

By ajh March 7, 2017
In France, News & features, Normandy Notebook

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