That as always it is better to prevent than cure

"Nature is not God." The emergence of a form of Pantheism naive bobo is a form of regression. It will not feed 9 billion people with bio products.

ANDR COMTE-SPONVILLE, PHILOSOPHER

"Stop to see agriculture as a problem." We are a solution. Solution in the field of the protection of the environment, for example. This is more than fifteen years that we reduce the consumption of fertilisers and phytosanitary products. And solution in the field of food. The France is not only self-sufficient, but it also exports. This is that it should maintain continuing progress. There is, in the Mediterranean basin, for actual applications that domestic agriculture cannot cope alone. We export all by helping farmers in the least developed countries.

PHILIPPE PINTA, GENERAL ASSOCIATION OF WHEAT GROWERS

"Agriculture is the great absent from the political debate." We, politicians, have surrendered in the 1990s to the Liberal wave. But the markets did not work. We have the volatility of prices, the food crisis and pollution due to the race performance.

HENRI NALLET, MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE OF MICHEL ROCARD

"Every six years, he disappears in terms of agricultural surfaces the equivalent of a French Department." Need to reverse the trend. Grow with the company, but not to lose our leadership in this area in the heart of global challenges.

JEAN-FRANOIS GLEIZES, FARMER, PRESIDENT OF PASSION CEREALS

"You create a new regulation of agriculture." A control that is not built around international organizations defending national interests, but a truly global regulation. He must overcome national egoisms to take into account the common and collective interest.

FRANOIS RACHLINE, DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE MONTAIGNE INSTITUTE

"The precautionary principle as it is in France goes too far." In the US, innovation is prohibited when it is proved that it is harmful. In Europe, we would like to authorize that the innovations which could prove that they were not harmful. In halting the field of GMOs, we may take a considerable delay.

THIERRY DE MONTBRIAL, DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE IFRI

"The States stole to the rescue of a financial sector adrift." This has cost billions and billions. That it does tell me not that States have the means to take action to better regulate the agricultural sector. That, as always, it is better to prevent than cure. Can intervene upstream, play on stocks, it will cost less than a disaster. The State cannot be satisfy.

HENRI BENOIST, COUNCIL ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL

"Positive signal for agriculture were transferred to the negative." The status of the operator from a subsistence to a global activity activity. It became an industrial, while food has become a scapegoat. You see something negative in eating. Only the poor think otherwise.

DOMINIQUE WOLTON, SOCIOLOGIST

"In a few years agricultural stocks have moved a few months to a few weeks." We are unable to resolve this problem at the global level. Demography is a huge factor of uncertainty, such as arable land which will be available, or the benefit that it will remove GMOs, or a sense of the evolution of China. Can not do without the action of the State in this context, contrary to the belief that it had for twenty years.

JEAN-HERV LORENZI, ECONOMIST