Food additive E551 could promote coeliac disease

23-Feb-2024 - E551, more commonly known as silicon dioxide, is a powder composed of nanoparticles (i.e., particles Researchers at INRAE and McMaster University in Canada combined their expertise to explore whether this level of exposure could affect the intestinal immune system. More specifically, they ...

European Chemical Pesticide-Free Agriculture in 2050

Results of a groundbreaking foresight study

28-Mar-2023 - While the negative impacts of chemical pesticides on the environment and human health are well documented, European policies are struggling to make progress towards the target of cutting chemical pesticide use by 50%[1]by 2030. This observation spurred 144 experts, scientists and stakeholders ...

Using intercropping systems for sustainable global agricultural production

09-Jan-2023 - With the increasing food demands of a growing world population, it is essential to increase agricultural production while reducing its environmental footprint. Crop diversification techniques have often been proposed as agroecological solutions to achieve this goal. Among them, intercropping – ...

Soybean production: a climate compatible with self-sufficiency on the European continent

12-Apr-2022 - Currently, Europe imports nearly 90% of the soybeans it consumes, mostly from the United States and Brazil, mainly for animal feed. Although the area under soybean cultivation has quadrupled on the continent in 12 years, from 1.2 Mha in 2004 to 5 Mha in 2016, it represented only 1.7% of total ...