Tag: agroindustry
In Brazil, the Cerrado savannah “devoured” by agro-industry
In the Northeast, some call it “Hiroshima”. Or immense plumes of smoke, rising very high into the sky over the fields, and which sometimes take on the appearance of mushroom…
Mega-basins in the Deux-Sèvres: thousands of demonstrators against “the grabbing of water by the agro-industry”
Some 4,200 people according to the prefecture, 6,000 according to the organizers, demonstrated in La Rochénard against these giant water reserves dedicated to agricultural irrigation. Thousands of opponents of “mega-basins”,…
In Brazil, the agro-industry pays for its dependence on Russian fertilizers
Judging by the agenda of the Brazilian Minister of Agriculture, Tereza Cristina, the issue of fertilizers has become a top priority. On March 11, in the presence of President Jair…
Agro-industry: “several complaints” after the blocking in Morbihan of a train for animal feed
Gendarmes near a wall erected by members of the collective “Brittany against factory farms” to block a train transporting cereals, on March 19, 2022 near Pontivy, in Brittany (AFP/JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER)…
Agro-industry: a grain train stopped by demonstrators in Brittany
Demonstration by the collective “Brittany against factory farms” on a railway line that they blocked near Pontivy in Brittany, March 19, 2022 (AFP/JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER) A train carrying cereals intended for…
The intense lobbying of the agro-industry against the agricultural component of the European Green Pact, “Farm to Fork”
Frans Timmermans, Vice-President of the European Commission, on May 20, 2020, in Brussels, during a press conference on the European “Farm to Fork” strategy. JOHN THYS / AFP The agro-industry…