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The Indian Ocean seeks to value its biodiversity
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...
Sustainable value chains North and South of Ghana
In 2022, The first field assignment of the year brought me to Ghana with a team coordinated by SOFRECO, to identify for the European Union relevant value chains for a new project in the North of the country. In addition, a more diplomatic mission was undertaken in the...
2022, a year of intense activity, between crises and resilience
Climate change and the collapse of biodiversity are having increasingly visible and dramatic consequences, from South to North and East to West. An open conflict in the North of Europe is impacting food in the South of the globe. But hope remains, with the end of the...
Devine qui vient dîner ce soir (film)
Guess who’s coming to dinner, film américain (USA) de 1967 (Devine qui vient dîner), avec le regretté Sydney Poitier, est un chef d’œuvre absolu. À voir et à revoir. C'est un film avec la structure d'une rigoureuse et parfaite d'une pièce de théâtre : unité de lieu...
In French Guyana, the emergence of sustainable French cocoa and chocolate
In 2020 and 2021, Pierre Johnson coordinated a study for the development of a “sustainable cocoa and chocolate originating from French Guyana”, at the request of a corporate sponsor and the Chamber of Agriculture of French Guyana. With Cesar Paz, creator of the Norandino cooperative in Peru, we met in early 2020 all the producers and actors likely to support this development. Gathered early November in a workshop for two days, current and prospective producers and their possible support shared their experiences and together built a vision for the future of a cocoa and chocolate of excellence, made in French Guyana and therefore in France. This article is a first assessment.
From plague to COVID-19: human health and ecosystems
Human health and ecosystems: a relationship of interdependency The current pandemic reminds us that human and ecosystems healths are closely linked. For decades, scientists, especially in the medical field, thought that it would one day be possible to control all...