An 83-year-old former wine-grower says that he’d rather die than let game-wardens take away a wild boar he has reared at his home since finding it in the wild 14 months ago.
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 ...
