French farmers, spearheading the peasant revolt in Europe, lifted most of their blockades this Friday, February 2. But this exit from the crisis comes at the cost of environmental ambition.

The Ecophyto 2030 plan, which aims to reduce the use of pesticides by 50% by 2030, has been put on hold. The executive wants to use this time to find a new indicator for quantifying the substances used in order to replace the “Nodu” (Number of unit doses)