Economy

Importing tomatoes makes more sense than producing them in Switzerland

By Max Frei · March 01, 2024

As the debate on the labeling of airfreighted foodstuffs gets underway in Berne, it's useful to dispel an all-too-familiar myth about the environmental impact of food imports.

Literature

Telling the story of Switzerland in the city and in the country

By Sandrine Rovere · 25 April 2023

In «Faire paysan», Blaise Hofmann from the Vaud region sets out to understand the ever-widening gap between the urban population and farmers. 

Literature

In Valais, a utopian community stands up to agribusiness giant Synsanto«

By Diana-Alice Ramsauer · June 7, 2022

Olivier May’s *Agrotopia* is a novel of contrasts. On the one hand, a corrupt agribusiness world that peddles genetically modified seeds...

Films

«La Soupe aux choux»: a tale of roommates and tragedy

By Danilo Heyer · March 25, 2020

Two outsiders facing a changing world

Society

Lionel Avanthay: «The noblest activity is cultivating the land».»

By Loris S. Musumeci · 06 January 2020

The earth teaches us patience and humility

Films

Edouard Bergeon brings peasant drama to the screen

By Jonas Follonier · November 13, 2019

A film about rural life and the father-son relationship

Films

«Roxane», a film more promising than successful

By Jonas Follonier · 03 July 2019

Les mercredis du cinéma - Jonas Follonier Guillaume de Tonquédec and his chickens: that's how you might sum up the cinematic experience...

World

Agriculture and geopolitics

By Clément Guntern · 08 June 2019

We need to grow things where they grow best, especially if we want to feed the world's growing population.

Films

«The Human Particle, a metaphor for the inner journey

By Hélène Lavoyer · May 09, 2018

Les mercredis du cinéma - Hélène Lavoyer «Breath or wheat? - Wheat.» In the eyes of Semih Kaplanoğlu, the population...