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Publications Published on 5 November 2021

The financial model of DAX 30 companies in the light of the ecological and social transition

Our study analyzes how DAX 30 companies have used their profits in the past few years: between 2009 and 2020, payments to shareholders rose by 85%, almost twice as much as profits (after tax) which rose by 48%, while the proportion (…)

Publications Published on 3 November 2021

Unraveling the issues of digitalisation in agriculture and food value chains

Digital technologies have become an integral part of our daily lives, changing the way the economy and society as a whole work. To what extent is it also changing the agricultural and food sectors today? Our study highlights the (…)

Publications Published on 28 September 2021

Food sustainable labels and standards: a new analytical framework to make things clearer

An innovative methodology developed by BASIC has been applied to analyze the impacts of 11 sustainability labels in 15 product categories on the French food market. Based on a comprehensive literature review, the study investigates (…)

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 (…)