PHYTO-VICTIMES

EPISODE 6

Searching for resilience

Why is it so difficult to stop using pesticides? Agriculture is like an ocean liner. It takes time to change course.

Didier Roblet, Laurence Guichard, Olivier Coquard, Fabrice Micouraud have not waited for the grand speeches on the need to « change the model » : they are experimenting, testing techniques, taking advantage of the natural functions of their environment, mixing traditional methods and high-tech tools…

They are often the only ones to assume the risks they take, in a context strongly influenced by the productivist model.