Maud Descamps, edited by Thibault Nadal 9:28 p.m., February 22, 2022
According to a report by the Terres de Liens Federation, France shaves 55,000 hectares of agricultural land each year, due to concreting and the artificialization of the soil.
A situation that alerts the association, while the government has set itself the objective of achieving zero artificialization of the soil by 2050.
An alarming report.
According to the Terre de Liens Federation, which aims to preserve agricultural land, France shaves 55,000 hectares of agricultural land each year, more than five times the area of Paris, for example.
These lands are eaten away by concreting and the artificialization of the soil.
It is the transformation of cultivable land into a road, a building zone or even a public garden.
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Each year, France artificializes between 50 and 60,000 hectares.
An area which, if cultivated, could feed the equivalent of the city of Le Havre.
A dynamic that must be stopped, believes Coline Sauveran, of Terre de liens, because our needs for agricultural products, she says, will only increase in the coming years.
"Today, there is a strong demand for food relocation, she explains. "We are trying to increase the share of organic food in school canteens, in collective restaurants, while if we continue to degrade and use agricultural land to build, to install economic activities that degrade the agronomic quality of these soils, we will lose our ability to feed the French population".
Objective: zero land take by 2050
To fight against the reduction of agricultural land, the government has set itself the objective of zero land development by 2050. The main difficulty remains convincing local authorities to rethink urban planning to reduce the conversion of agricultural land into building land.