Agroecology overlooked by the new agricultural orientation law

Published on February 25, 2025 at 8:00 a.m.

Voted in extremis on February 20, the text designed to respond to the anger of the agricultural world serves intensive agriculture and the interests of agro-industry to the detriment of biodiversity, without, however, resolving the problem of the impoverishment of farmers.

This week, like every year at the same time, Paris has a little local flavor. At the Porte de Versailles, the Salon de l'Agriculture exhibits calves, cows, pigs, broods, as well as the latest agrotech gadgets. To defuse the anger of a profession that had strongly heckled him last year, Emmanuel Macron affirmed at the inauguration that farmers could not be "the adjustment variable" of purchasing power and trade agreements.

The president was also able to highlight the new agricultural orientation law , voted on in extremis on February 20. Its most symbolic provision raises agriculture to the rank of "major general interest" . But whose interest? Presented last year by Gabriel Attal, then at Matignon, as a "simplification shock" , this set of measures actually serves intensive agriculture and the interests of the agro-industry, to the detriment of a turn…

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