France has approved the temporary return of two controversial pesticides that had been banned nationally for the past two years, reigniting a fierce debate between agricultural competitiveness and environmental protection. Lawmakers backed an emergency farm bill that allows limited use of the insecticides under strict conditions, arguing that French farmers need the chemicals to remain competitive with rivals across the European Union.

A year after mass protests against the Duplomb law, Parliament is again debating bringing back acetamiprid and flupyradifurone. Essential for some, intolerable for others, the…

Les députés français ont adopté, dans la nuit de lundi à mardi, la loi d'urgence agricole. La possibilité de réintroduire de manière dérogatoire l'acétamipride et le…