EU proposals to make traffic light food labelling compulsory have stirred fury from artisan French food producers, who say the health and nutrition scores unfairly brand traditional foodstuffs like Roquefort cheese as unhealthy.
A rare cold snap that froze vineyards across much of France this month could see harvest yields drop by around a third this year, France's national agriculture observatory said on Thursday.
Standing on a steep narrow path amid rows of vines, Michael Gerin wonders whether any of this year's harvest can be salvaged. The worst spring frost in decades has killed off most of the shoots, and the weather forecast is not promising.
Desperate French farmers counted the cost Friday of several nights' of frost this week which threaten to decimate grape harvests in some of the country's best-known and prestigious wine-producing regions.
The French government is to declare an agricultural disaster over an unusual early spring frost that has damaged crops and vines across the country, the agriculture minister said.
French authorities plan to expand their culls of ducks reared for the controversial delicacy foie gras as an outbreak of bird flu rips through the southwest of the country, a producers' federation said Thursday.
Organisers of the Paris Salon de l'Agriculture - a traditional campaigning group for French presidential hopefuls - have announced the cancellation of the 2021 event.
Every year, the French consume some 4,000 tonnes of frogs' legs. But nearly all the amphibian limbs that land on French plates come from abroad, since wild harvesting of the protected creatures is all but banned and their cultivation strictly controlled.
The wine harvest has begun in parts of France, with vineyard owners hit with a double whammy of organising an unusually early harvest, complete with extra health protocols.
France's coronavirus crisis has sparked a fierce battle in its hallowed champagne industry over this season's harvest, with producers and growers at loggerheads over how much bubbly should be put into bottles.
French Agriculture Minister Didier Guillaume has appealed for people laid off amid the coronavirus lockdown to help beleaguered crop and livestock farmers who are in need of labourers as summer approaches.
It's 20 years since a group of French farmers dismantled a partially built McDonald's restaurant in southern France, but what was their protest about and what happened afterwards?
Five French mayors who brought in a ban on certain pesticides near schools are facing legal action by regional authorities - who say they have overstepped their powers.
Pistachios are a staple of the vaunted French aperitif, but the nuts come from thousands of miles away -- a situation a handful of farmers in the southern Provence region hope to change.
In an apple orchard outside Paris, a constant hum among the blossoming trees bears witness to thousands of worker bees pollinating millions of flowers in just three weeks.
French farmers will be watching the outcome of the EU Parliament elections next month, with EU spending a key issue for agriculture across the country.
The number of French farms has been on the decline for decades as the farmers that remain struggle to make a living. Columnist John Lichfield looks at why Europe's greatest agricultural powerhouse is ailing.
In a world faced with the conundrum of mountains of waste and obesity for some and dire shortages and malnutrition for others, the future of food is a main dish on today's global menu.
From a container wafts the sweetly pungent odour of coffee grounds which, far from being discarded as waste, are being lucratively recycled to produce oyster mushrooms.
French rural life came to the capital Paris on Friday when cows, sheep and other livestock were paraded through a Paris neighbourhood to mark the start of an annual agricultural fair.
French health authorities announced on Monday a permanent ban on a widely used pesticide, after alarms were raised when several dozen people fell ill in western France recently.
The French government on Friday ordered a three-month ban of a widely used pesticide after dozens of people, many of them farm workers, fell ill in western France in recent weeks.
