Revue de presse - Club DEMETER

A new form of African swine fever identified in Chinese pig farms is most likely caused by illicit vaccines, industry insiders say, a fresh blow to the world's largest pork producer, still recovering from a devastating epidemic of the virus.

Think the rest of the country will avoid electricity shortages of the kind that have led to rolling blackouts recently in California? Don't bet on it. Not enough baseload power from fossil fuel and nuclear plants and an increasing reliance on intermittent renewable energy sources such as wind and solar across the country are likely to keep power failures in the national spotlight for years to come.

Most Americans have grown accustomed to plentiful food. The pandemic has exposed shortcomings in a complex and often convoluted U.S. food system.

Via Système de veille

Aux quatre coins de l'Europe, une maladie non transmissible à l'homme se propage dans les élevages porcins. L'entraide internationale permet jusqu'ici de contenir l'épidémie. Exemple en Pologne et en Allemagne. 

Cheap beef and wasted milk: US agriculture struggles with virus

Selon une étude, l'augmentation des conflits entre les agriculteurs et les bergers au Nigéria pourrait se propager dans d'autres voisins.

Avec les restrictions liées au Covid-19, la crise qui frappe les éleveurs du Sahel a atteint son paroxysme. 

Le marché de la viande n’allait déjà pas bien avant. La crise, avec la fermeture de la restauration collective, met les éleveurs en grave difficulté.

Scientists are tracing the path of Sars-CoV-2 from a wild animal host – but we also need to look at the part played in the outbreak by industrial food production

In some western river basins, over 50 percent of the water goes to cattle feed, fodder for cows that end up as burgers in major U.S. cities. To save rivers, scientists suggest paying farmers to not farm.