25 Sep, 2024
Conference of Parties COP16 Biodiversity will open its doors on 21 October 2024 in Cali, Colombia. This 16th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will deal with access to and fair and equitable sharing of benefits...
25 Sep, 2024
“Qu’est-ce que la biopiraterie ?”, “Ce phénomène est-il en progression ou en regression ?”, telles sont les premières questions posées par l’animateur de l’Entretien de l’Intelligence Économique sur France 24 à Pierre...
27 Jan, 2024
Pistachio is the most precious nut in the Mediterranean. Did you know that this green almond, which enhances pastries in the southern and eastern Mediterranean, originated in Persia? Since the boycott of the Iranian regime, American entrepreneurs have thrown...
14 Oct, 2023
On October 10th, 2023, I followed my partner to a presentation by La Maison du Chocolat, a famous French brand of chocolate, of new products for works council Christmas and end-of-year gifts. The show was held in a grand Parisian hotel. It was, of course, a memorable...
4 Jan, 2023
The West of the Indian Ocean comprises French and francophone islands where aromatic, medicinal and perfume plants as well as spices are abundant, including in Madagascar, the Comoros Union and Mayotte. Only 70 to 300 km apart, they have a high level of endemic...
17 Dec, 2020
Will we have French chocolate for Christmas in the next few years? Perhaps, thanks to a new movement of cocoa production and processing in French Guyana. In 2020 and 2021, Pierre Johnson coordinated a study for the development of a “sustainable cocoa and...