Upon its introduction, glyphosate was heralded as a "silver bullet" for weed control. Likewise, glyphosate-resistant crops came with the lofty claim that they would greatly reduce applications of herbicides. Instead, glyphosate applications increased 10x on US cropland within

📢 Nous recrutons 2 ingénieurs d'études pour l'animation et la coordination de territoires d'expérimentations autour de l'agroécologie en Nouvelle-Aquitaine Merci pour la diffusion jobs.inrae.fr/ot-19757 nuage.univ-pau.fr/s/gC2mL4wCA7A3… INRAE Santé des Plantes et Environnement INRAE Nouvelle-Aquitaine Bordeaux Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA)

Very proud to share this new piece of research led by Emeric Courson : sciencedirect.com/science/articl…. It shows the importance of preserving or establishing hedgerows in agricultural landscapes to reduce the use of insecticides. UMRAgroecologie INRAE Santé des Plantes et Environnement

Pesticides : « Nous, chercheurs et chercheuses, dénonçons une mise au placard des connaissances scientifiques »… lemonde.fr/idees/article/…

Europe is backpedaling on the Green Deal - see article in Science Magazine. ''This is nonsense politics. It’s quite severe, and it’s based on disinformation''. science.org/content/articl…

Le MNHN vient de publier les tendances d'évolution des populations d'oiseaux mis à jour avec les données de 2023 : le déclin global se poursuit (courbe rouge), particulièrement tiré par le déclin des oiseaux agricoles (courbe jaune). 1/3

les systèmes agricoles plus diversifiés sont plus résilients et réduisent l'usage des #pesticides ! "Combination of functional plants conserves predators, repels pests, and enhances biological control" sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #agroecology

Check this interesting review by Léa Tison et al. Among other research directions, they highlight the need for considering community and food web structures to understand the effect of pesticides on ecosystem functioning

1% of farms control 70% of the global farmland! IPES-Food idenfities 4 main drivers: Accelerated land grabbing, Green grabbing (e.g. from carbon and biodiversity offsetting), Expansion & encroachment, and Agri-food industrialization & consolidation: ipes-food.org/report/land-sq…

You know that old science fiction storyline in which humans make the environment so toxic that they can no longer have babies? “Taken together, our results suggest a negative impact of glyphosate on human reproductive health” theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Bienvenue Aurélie Vincent dans l’équipe Biodiversité! Ingénieure de recherche dans le cadre du #projetMAIA (shorturl.at/2mc5i), elle a pour mission de monter les réseaux d’expérimentations et d’animer les différents territoires pilotes du projet.

Writing a paper w/ ca. 80 co-authors is, in itself, a study in network dynamics and the epidemiology of information flow. Here is an example that concerns #PlantHealth, brilliantly coordinated by Samuel Soubeyrand with a vision on building better surveillance cabiagbio.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

65 scientists from INRAE, Cirad and Anses present a research agenda for an enhanced and modernized plant health surveillance to anticipate and mitigate disease and pest emergence. Read the article in CABI Agriculture and Bioscience doi.org/10.1186/s43170…

Important new paper led by Melissa Guzman showing that insecticides reduce bee abundances in the United States nature.com/articles/s4189…