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Publications Published on 24 March 2021

Towards a fair transition of food systems: Issues and political levers for France

Based on the decarbonization pathway of the agricultural sector defined by the French government in its National Low-Carbon Strategy, IDDRI and Basic have developed two scenarios of food system transition, both aiming at the same (…)

Media Published on 9 March 2021

Fashion victims

Our joint research with Public Eye and “Collectif Ethique sur l’Etiquette” on Zara, the flagship brand of Inditex, reveals the hidden side of this leader of Fast Fashion. The key to Zara’s commercial success (…)

Publications Published on 9 February 2021

Pesticides: big goals but few financial resources

Confronted with increasing health and environmental impacts, France and the European Union have set ambitious targets to reduce the use of pesticides in agriculture (notably through the French Ecophyto plan). However, the pesticide (…)

Publications Published on 9 February 2021

French public aid to agriculture projects in the Global South: the schizophrenia of the government

The database developed by BASIC on the agricultural projects funded by the French State in countries eligible to Official Development Assistance enables to query on 1,500 keywords and variants. It has required the consolidation and (…)

Publications Published on 8 September 2020

The environmental benefits of vegetarian meals served in French school canteens

With a billion meals served each year in France, school catering has major repercussions not only on children’s eating habits but also on the agricultural world which produces the food products and, by extension, on all of the (…)

Publications Published on 30 June 2020

The distribution of value in European chocolate chains

On 30 June 2020, a joint webinar was organized by the European Commission Directorate General for International Cooperation and Development (DG DEVCO), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the (…)

Publications Published on 22 June 2020

CAC 40: unsustainable profits?

Oxfam France and BASIC have investigated the distribution of the value created by the companies listed in the French CAC 40 since the last financial crisis (2009-2018). The report describing the results of the research can be viewed (…)

Publications Published on 20 November 2019

What is the true cost of Fast Fashion?

Given that Zara does not publish any data on supplier wages or the purchase prices it pays, we produced our own detailed calculation of the breakdown of the price of the hoody “RESPECT” which was sold in its stores during (…)

Tool Published on 10 October 2019

PARCEL, a free and didactic tool to assess the effects of sourcing food locally and sustainably

To support citizens and local authorities answer these questions and address the current issues related to food and agriculture in their territories, BASIC, Terre de Liens (French member of Access to Land) and FNAB (the French (…)

Publications Published on 10 October 2019

The Human Costs of Indian Tea

A new study conducted by BASIC for Oxfam Germany reveals that brands and supermarkets are taking an ever-increasing share of the price paid by shoppers. In the United States, supermarkets and tea brands capture almost 94 percent of (…)