Frédéric Hénin est l'ancien rédacteur en chef de Terre-net.fr Il a notamment été enseignant agricole en sciences économiques, gestion et droit rural puis ingénieur-conseil en centre de gestion. Après neuf ans de journalisme économique à La France Agricole, il a rejoint Terre-net Média en 2008, comme chef de rubrique "politique agricole et économie-gestion" puis rédacteur en chef.
Read the first part of the article The invasion of Ukraine is devastating for the country, its farmers, and also the Russian farmers in a boomerang effect. Last year, none.
The Russian invasion has devastated the Ukrainian economy and its agriculture. But it has also backfired on Russian farmers. Last year, none of them benefited from the record-high global prices.
Throughout the 21st century, agricultural production growth in Africa will rely on significant productivity gains. Plant biotechnology, which speeds up the selection process to obtain plant varieties with desired traits more quickly, will be crucial in achieving this.
Grain trade for the 2022-2023 season is already estimated at 407 Mt by the ICC. The export capacities of the world’s major cereal exporting countries will barely be sufficient to.
In both conventional and organic farming, a high level of organic matter in the soil is one of the keys to achieving both environmental and financial performance. Control plots in.
We are not yet able to decode the full genomes for thousands of varieties of wheat. However, genotyping chips can provide a “genetic identity card” for these varieties, a precious.
The global spread of the coronavirus epidemic is significantly disrupting the functioning of agricultural markets. Operators fear a decrease in trade, while their most pressing problem is logistics. During the.
Hundreds of hectares of miscanthus – a perennial herbaceous grass native to Africa and South Asia – could be used to manufacture parts for the automotive industry. The “Biomass for.
Decoding the genomes of around ten cultivated plant species is a varietal selection method. It will expedite the development of new varieties which are crucial for a successful agroecological transition.
The economic boom in West Africa is related to the agriculture and agri-food sectors. Feeding 500 million increasingly urbanised Africans by 2030 has kickstarted the growth of the agriculture and.
