Adèle Pautrat

1 week ago | resilience.org | Adèle Pautrat

Organic farming has long been hailed as the poster child for sustainable agriculture. But as the EU organic sector becomes increasingly industrialised, cracks are beginning  appear. How can we weed out the weaknesses in the current model and transition to diversified, resilient systems? Seeds4All visited the Bergerie de Villarceaux, a pioneering farm through the decades, in the hope of gleaning lessons from the past for the organic farmers of tomorrow.

2 weeks ago | arc2020.eu | Adèle Pautrat

Organic farming has long been hailed as the poster child for sustainable agriculture. But as the EU organic sector becomes increasingly industrialised, cracks are beginning to appear. How can we weed out the weaknesses in the current model and transition to diversified, resilient systems? Seeds4All visited the Bergerie de Villarceaux, a pioneering farm through the decades, in the hope of gleaning lessons from the past for the organic farmers of tomorrow. By Adèle Pautrat and Natasha Foote.

2 months ago | znetwork.org | Adèle Pautrat

Where to find heritage grains likely to thrive in a Portuguese climate and soil conditions? This was the question asked by José…

2 months ago | arc2020.eu | Adèle Pautrat

Where to find heritage grains likely to thrive in a Portuguese climate and soil conditions? This was the question asked by José da Camara Ruas, when he reached out to Seeds4All a year ago. A farmer in training at the Kalo Organic Agriculture College of Denmark, José told us about the farming project he had just started with his partner and friend, Pedro Cabral, in the Alentejo region in south Portugal.

Jul 12, 2024 | resilience.org | Adèle Pautrat |With a degree

You’ve probably heard of people extending an olive branch – perhaps less common is offering up a leek. But that’s exactly what one farmer was doing outside the European Parliament one rainy Brussels day. Here, Seeds4All digs into why this leek symbolises the struggle for seed autonomy and why, together with two other farms, they pour so much energy into this. The cooperation project De Vroente is based in Sint-Lievens-Esse in the Flanders region of Belgium. Report by Adèle Pautrat.