French farmers soon to be deprived of glyphosate

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Cereal-breeder in Sologne, Franck Baechler practices soil conservation agriculture, a cultivation method which should be spared by the ban on glyphosate. © Opaline Lysiak

By: Claire Fages Follow

French agriculture is at a turning point. Next year she will have to do without glyphosate, an effective and inexpensive herbicide, but which has been deemed "probable carcinogen" by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, IARC.

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From January 2021, the French government will ban most uses of glyphosate for farmers. Between resistance, progress and dead ends, how are they preparing for this radical change in the Center-Loire Valley region?

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