“Moving towards Chemical-Free Agriculture in Europe: A Proactive Approach”

2023-05-22 13:00:30

Agriculture without chemical pesticides is unimaginable today. The recent tensions around the ban on neonicotinoids have shown this, despite ever more precise and documented knowledge of the harmful effects of certain phytosanitary products on the environment and human health. “The end (or the hunger) justifies the means,” reply the cynics. But is this situation inevitable?

A large-scale prospective study, which mobilized some 150 scientists and stakeholders for two years under the direction of the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (Inrae), outlines the possible paths for rid Europe of these controversial substances. At the cost of proactive policies and a more or less radical change in our consumption habits.

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