Richard Conniff, a 2012 Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellow, is a National Magazine Award-winning writer whose articles have appeared in Time, Smithsonian, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine,...
Serge Orru est le directeur général du WWF France.Photo : © AFP PHOTO FRANK PERRY
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations. It was founded on 16 October 1945 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. In 1951 its...
Yann Arthus-Bertrand is a famous photographer. He has always had a passion for the animal world and the natural environment. In 1991 he founded Altitude, the world’s first aerial photography agency...
The Science and Development Network is a not-for-profit organization in the United Kingdom recognized for its educational charity. Its mission is to help economic players in developing countries to...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations. It was founded on 16 October 1945 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. In 1951 its...
Jeffrey David Sachs (United States): Distinguished American economist. Mr Sachs is Director of the Earth Institute, as well as a professor of sustainable development and health policy and management...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations. It was founded on 16 October 1945 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. In 1951 its...
Fred Pearce is journalist specialized in the environment and development. He was born in the United Kingdom and studied geography in the University of Cambridge. His latest book is When the Rivers...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations. It was founded on 16 October 1945 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. In 1951 its...
George Monbiot is a well-known investigation reporter and columnist for the British newspaper “The Guardian” as well as a member of the BBC Wildlife magazine’s advisory board. He is also the author...
L’International Institute for Environment and Development (iied) a été fondé en 1971. Cette organisation internationale non-lucrative conduit des activités de recherches et de lobbying sur les grands...
Juliet Torome, a writer and documentary film-maker, was awarded Cine-source Magazine’s first annual Flaherty documentary award.
Silvia Ribeiro et Kathy Jo Wetter travaillent toutes deux en tant que chercheuses pour l'Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration (ETC Group).
Jeffrey David Sachs (United States): Distinguished American economist. Mr Sachs is Director of the Earth Institute, as well as a professor of sustainable development and health policy and management...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations. It was founded on 16 October 1945 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. In 1951 its...
Vandana Shiva (India): Physicist, epistemologist, ecologist, and Indian feminist with a PhD in the philosophy of science. She founded “Navdanya,” an association which works to protect biodiversity...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations. It was founded on 16 October 1945 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. In 1951 its...
Vandana Shiva (India): Physicist, epistemologist, ecologist, and Indian feminist with a PhD in the philosophy of science. She founded “Navdanya,” an association which works to protect biodiversity...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations. It was founded on 16 October 1945 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. In 1951 its...
Nature et Progrès (Nature & Progress) (is a bimonthly magazine, created in 1964. Every two months, the journal evaluates current events in agriculture and biological food. Provides reporting,...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations. It was founded on 16 October 1945 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. In 1951 its...
With a degree in botanicals from the University of North Wales, he returned to Ethiopia where, since 1970, Dr. Tewolde Berhan Gebre EGZIABHER has directed the Biology Department at the University of...
Lester Russel Brown, famous author of more than 50 books on the environment and founder of the Worldwatch Institute in the United States, urges us to become more aware of the many services forests...
A farmer in the1960s, Pierre Rabhi confronted very early on the problem of intensive agriculture and was appalled by the impacts of this practice on ecosystems. In the 1960s, he decided to develop,...
Farmers in the world today are confronted with sizable difficulties. According to Lester R. Brown, they must simultaneously anticipate the increasing food needs of the population and face new environmental constraints linked to the increasingly strong pressure that humankind exerts on the ecosystems and that have consequences, notably the reduction of irrigation sources, pollution of groundwater from the use of polluting substances, soil erosion, etc.
This immense damage is causing numerous farmers to reappropriate the most respectful ancestral practices of the environment and develop more "durable" agronomic practices. This is the official report of Pierre Rabhi, agro-ecological expert. According to him, "dominating or transgressing the earth with impunity is a dangerous illusion". He advocates the general practice of biological agriculture as a substitute for conventional agriculture, a method of agricultural production that is "expensive, vulnerable, dependent and the least profitable in the history of humanity". Tewolde Egziabher, a high-ranking state official of Ethiopia confirms this thesis. He reports the incredible experience of local Ethiopian communities who revived soil whose yield had been reduced to nothing. The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) rallies around these theses and encourages this practice from now on. A report titled, "Biological Agriculture and Food Security" presented in May 2007 at the international conference on the same theme, also lauds the general integration of biological agriculture in national policies and practices. According to study conclusions (published in this report), biological agriculture "can contribute to food security" worldwide, but also reduce damage on the ecosystems, "under the condition that its practice emanates from a true political will". Thus, the experts in the report also note, "in implementing biodiversity throughout time (crop rotation) and space (associated crops), the farmers having opted for biological agriculture (…) intensify production in a durable manner".
Nelly Pégeault, Editorial Director of Nature et Progrès (Nature and Progress), praises the report, calling it a giant step in favor of global ecology and food security, but also social progress, because from now on, biological agriculture will allow farmers from around the world to "break the vicious circle of indebtedness for the purchase of agricultural input".
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