Our special “Farm Fair” guide
After a shortened show in 2020 and an outright cancellation the following year due to sanitary conditions, the International Agricultural Show is back from Saturday February 26 to Sunday March 6. The Porte de Versailles in Paris will once again vibrate to the rhythm of the largest farm in France. But the epidemic crisis that we have just gone through has deeply – definitively? – changed our relationship to agriculture and to those who sustain it.
Just remember the queues in front of supermarkets and the fear of food shortages as we experienced an unprecedented and brutal first confinement. Suddenly, the need for food and medical care once again became an essential need and a basic necessity.
Become conscious eaters of their role
This is indeed the challenge that awaits the entire sector: to feed the 67 million French people well while being ever fewer in number. Farmers working in our territory are now 389,000, 100,000 less than ten years ago. An equation that is difficult to maintain in the long term, which shows that all of us, collectively, must accompany and support our growers and breeders to enable them to make a good living from their activity by becoming, as starred chef Thierry Marx insists in our dossier, ” eaters and no longer consumers” aware of their role.
Not always obvious when purchasing power remains the primary concern of households. Eating well may be more expensive, but has many benefits in terms of health and environmental protection.
With the editorial staff of Le Parisien-Aujourd’hui en France, we wanted to offer you the opportunity to discover agriculture that heals and does good. Like the Bleu-Blanc-Cœur association, born twenty years ago with the promise of a positive impact on health. Then head to the Loiret to taste the ancient wheat rehabilitated by a grain farmer in retraining, to the delight of bakers.
Well-being is also the niche of a superfood like spirulina, real green gold from the Charentes, like Provençal lavender or Auvergne gentian. The soils conceal treasures when we know how to exploit all their richness. Thus the Madagascar periwinkle generates a molecule capable of fighting against certain cancers. The Pierre Fabre laboratory in the Tarn has become an expert in the field and a world reference in health through plants.
Producing well, eating well, living well: this trilogy is at the heart of the file that we invite you to discover.