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During the site visit, Pascal Marget (Époisses Experimental Unit) presents the 120 hectares used to conduct research in agroecology under real crop conditions

News

02 Oct 2018

In Bretenière, a European Parliament committee commends INRA’s expertise in reducing pesticide use

On 19 September 2018, twenty representatives from the Special Committee on the Union’s authorisation procedure for pesticides (PEST) of the European Parliament visited INRA’s Époisses Experimental Farm in Bretenière, France.  Chaired by the French Member of the European Parliament Eric Andrieu, the committee’s objective is to review the research conducted to reduce pesticide use in agriculture.

Histological section of male mouse liver exposed to pesticides for a year. © Inra

Press release

27 Jun 2018

The effect of a cocktail of low-dose pesticides via the diet: initial findings in animals have demonstrated metabolic disturbances

INRA scientists, working with their colleagues from INSERM, have studied in mice the effects of chronic oral exposure to a low-dose pesticide cocktail. Their results have demonstrated metabolic disturbances in vivo that differ as a function of sex. Indeed, males exposed to the pesticides gained weight and became diabetic, while females were protected from these effects but displayed other disturbances. These results have just been published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

indicateurs microbiens pour évaluer l’impact des pesticides © Fabrice MARTIN –LAURENT

News

28 Mar 2018

Microbial indicators to evaluate the impact of pesticides

Testing and developing new microbial indicators to estimate the impact of pesticides on the functions assured by soils and sediments.

METAQUANT metagenomics platform. © INRA, BEAUCARDET William

News

31 Aug 2016

The cocktail effect of pesticides

For the first time, an experimental study has demonstrated a cocktail effect for a mixture of five pesticides found in human food. This means that these chemicals are more toxic when combined than alone. The results showed DNA damage on lines of human cells cultivated in vitro.

Location of the 15 crop systems experiments studied in this meta-analysis: United States (7 sites), Canada (2 sites), France (4 sites), Sweden (1 site), Switserland (2 sites) and Norway (1 site). Map by L. Hossard with ggplot2 (Wickam, 2009) and maptools (Bivand and Lewin-Koh, 2015) of R software (R Development Core Team, 2013).. © INRA, Laure Hossard

News

01 Apr 2016

A meta-analysis of maize and wheat yields in low-input vs conventional and organic systems

Developing sustainable yet high-yield agricultural systems is a major priority in today’s world. Researchers at INRA have recently published a meta-analysis of wheat and maize crops showing that yields from low-input farming (using few phytosanitary products) drop only slightly compared to conventional agriculture.

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