Can agriculture manage without pesticides?
Organic farming is still often considered a First World whim. More and more experts are convinced it would be possible to feed the planet using farming that is smaller scale, diversified and that forgoes the use of chemicals. swissinfo.ch discussed the issue with Pascal Olivier from Bio Suisse, the federation of Swiss organic farmers, and Claude Peguiron, a farmer from canton Vaud who has recently converted to organic.
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I manage a multilingual team responsible for covering the Swiss Abroad, providing them with the information they need to participate in political life in Switzerland. After studying political science in Neuchâtel and Bern, I started out in multimedia journalism at SwissTXT and RTS. Since 2008, I've been working at SWI swissinfo.ch, where I've held various journalistic and management positions.
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