For the 15,000 professional athletes descending on Paris this month, one-third of their food options will be plant-based, and 30% of all ingredients will be certified organic.
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For the 15,000 professional athletes descending on Paris this month, one-third of their food options will be plant-based, and 30% of all ingredients will be certified organic.
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A very worrisome move backward for France and the world.
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In France’s Bordeaux region, 400 people have begun experimenting with a unique food security program, aiming to make locally-grown and organic food accessible to everyone.
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Comments by agriculture minister seem to signal shift away from focus on organic produce as shoppers choose cheaper meat.
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After booming during Covid, the organic food market is on the decline in France, and farmers say inflation is not to blame.
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Carrefour CEO Alexandre Bompard, the head of Europe’s largest food retailer, said consumers now have penny-pinching approach to shopping and are swapping out organic for conventional.
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More than a third of fruit and vegetable products in France are thought to be sold in plastic wrapping, and government officials believe that the ban could prevent a billion items of single-use plastics from being used every year.
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New restrictions are part of a push by the French government to phase out the cancer-causing weedkiller by 2021.
Read Article Put into effect on January 1st, pesticide-free zones in France have angered winegrowers while civil society still considers them insufficient.
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France’s health and environment agency said it was banning 36 glyphosate-based weedkillers at the end of 2020 because of health risks.
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The battle between conventional farmers and concerned citizens is reaching a boiling point in France.
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France added 5,000 organic farms last year, and its total organic acreage now accounts for 7.5% of all farmland in the country.
Read Article France is getting serious about improving its food supply and requiring that all public sector food be local or organic by 2022.
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Credit insurer Coface said that organic farmers in France need to boost organic food production to meet the fast-growing demand or shoppers will increasingly turn to imports, which already accounts for 29% of the organic food consumed in the country.
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Beginning in 2018, the French government will cut subsidies to organic farms but will continue to help fund farmers converting to organic.
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With 15% of French citizens eating organic on a daily basis, it should come as no surprise that the organic chocolate market experienced such rapid growth.
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While France may have plenty of problems these days, getting its people to buy organic food is not one of them. Nearly 2/3rds of all households are now purchasing organic.
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For schools in France, a law was just passed that requires 40% of its food to be local & seasonal and 20% to be certified organic. Lucky kids!
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If you thought the U.S. organic sector was on fire, things are even stronger in France, where growth for 2016 is expected at 20%.
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In France, organic food sales last year grew by a record 15%, and organic acreage increased by 23%, which now accounts for 5% of all farmland in the country.
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