Companies and foreign governments are currently snapping up huge amounts of cheap land in Africa. The land is being used to produce food, feed or biofuel for the international market.
Prominent French anti-genetically modified crop campaigner and European MP José Bové has welcomed the government’s decision to put a temporary ban on a genetically modified, GM, strain of maize made by US company Monsanto.
Biotechnology giant Monsanto says it will appeal a decision by a French court in the southeastern city of Lyon on Monday which found the company legally responsible for the poisoning of a farmer ...
Alessandra Galié, an Italian researcher, has been working for the past five years in north-west Syria on a programme developed by the International center for Agricultural Research in Dry ...
France is Europe’s biggest wine producer - around 50 million hectolitres in 2011. Great news, but you’ve got to sell all those bottles and that’s a real challenge.
France's top administrative court on Monday overturned a government order banning French farmers from planting genetically modified crops from the US agriculture giant Monsanto.
The authorities in Japan have introduced the first ban on rice produced near the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant after it showed radioactive contamination above legal limits.
