Agriculture: problems; new trends

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les problèmes auxquels les agriculteurs sont confrontés

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Problems faced by farmers

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ruiner / détruire, le mildiou / la cloque

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to blight, blight

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un parasite, un animal nuisible

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a parasite, a pest

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une sauterelle, une chenille

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a grasshopper, a caterpillar

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dévorer, un rongeur

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to eat up, a rodent

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ronger

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to gnaw

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le gel, gelé

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frost, frostbitten

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sec, la sécheresse

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dry, drought

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la grêle, un grêlon

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hail, a hailstone

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se flétrir, une inondation

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to wither, a flood

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pourrir, pourri

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to rot, rotten

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infecter, la brucellose, la myxomatose

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to infect, brucellosis, myxomatosis

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la rage, enragé

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rabies, rabid

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abattre, l’abattage

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to cull, cull

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une surabondance, un surplus, la surproduction

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a glut, a surplus, overproduction

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beaucoup, abondant

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plenty, plentiful

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stocker, la constitution de stocks

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to stockpile, stockpiling

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un quota, une pénurie

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a quota, a shortage

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vendre à bas prix

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to dump

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une situation difficile

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a plight

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le revenu, vivoter

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the income, to scrape by

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une dette, criblé de dettes

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a debt, debt-ridden

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Stimulation de la production

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Boosting production

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l’agronomie, un agronome

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agronomy, an agronomist

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l’agroalimentaire

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agribusiness

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rapporter / produire, le rendement

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to yield, the yield

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maximiser

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to maximise

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irriguer, l’irrigation

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to irrigate, irrigation

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drainer, le drainage / l’assainissement

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to drain, drainage

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fertiliser, un engrais, la fertilisation

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to fertilize, a fertilizer, fertilization

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les produits chimiques, l’agrochimie

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chemicals, agrochemicals

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les nitrates, les phosphates

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nitrates, phosphates

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un pesticide, un herbicide, traiter

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a pesticide, a herbicide, to treat

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pulvériser, la pulvérisation des cultures

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to spray, crop-spraying

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abuser, de l’abus de

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to overuse, overuse

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trafiquer, un centre d’élevage intensif

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to tamper (with), a feedlot

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une batterie, une hormone

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a battery, a hormone

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la biotechnologie, un gène

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biotechnology, a gene

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transgénique, la génétique

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transgenic, genetics

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les OGM, modifié génétiquement

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GMOs, GM-engineered

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qui résiste aux parasites / insectes

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pest / insect-resistant

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qui résiste à la sécheresse, qui résiste aux maladies

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drought-resistant, disease-resistant

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enrichi en vitamines

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vitamin-enhanced

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qui supporte les herbicides

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herbicide-tolerant / resistant

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un nutriment, nutrition, nutritif

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a nutrient, nutrition, nutritious

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une race / une espèce, croiser / hybrider

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a breed, to crossbreed

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le croisement, un hybride

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crossbreeding, a crossbreed

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une race / une souche

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a strain

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évoluer, l’évolution

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to evolve, evolution

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une mutation, les “super mauvaises herbes”

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a mutation, superweeds

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contaminer, la contamination

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to contaminate, contamination

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le pollen, la transpollinisation

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pollen, crosspollination

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préjudice, nuisible / préjudiciable

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harm, harmful

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endommager, des dégâts

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to damage, damage

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l’inquiétude, inquiet

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concern, concerned

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une étiquette, étiqueter, l’étiquetage

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a label, to label, labelling

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sans OGM, un moratoire

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GM-free, a moratorium

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interdire, une interdiction (de)

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to ban, a ban (on)

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Les tendances récentes

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Recent trends

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bio(logique) ≠ inorganique

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organic ≠ inorganic

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traditionnel, naturel

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conventional, natural

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sans produits chimiques, sain

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chemical-free, wholesome

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savoureux ≠ sans goût

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tasty ≠ tasteless

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l’agroécologie, agroécologique

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agro-ecology, agro-ecological