The partners of the Week Without Pesticide

COMPANIES

Biocoop - Biocoop is a French organic retailers with than 300 organic stores all around France. Their aim: the development of organic farming in a spirit of fairness and cooperation. Leader of the organic food distribution in France, Biocoop also evidenced by its Fair Trade products and by a very wide choice of environmentally friendly goods and cosmetics. More than just a network of traders, Biocoop also wants to influence the choices of society and share his project with other stakeholders: employees, consumers, producers and partners. Biocoop relay Week Without Pesticides in all its stores.

Botanic - The desire of the founders of Botanic is to promote trade humane and environmentally friendly. This vision has led these specialists in the garden to take initiatives for the protection of nature and the preservation of the environment since the beginning. Since 2005, sustainable development lies at the heart of the business plan for Botanic. Thus Botanic removed permanently from all its stores synthetic pesticides and pursue its actions in favour of organic gardening. Botanic relay Week Without Pesticides in all its stores and held discussions with projections of movies.

Ecocert - ECOCERT is an agency inspection and certification concerning organic farming, whose activity is regulated as such by the authorities and legislation. Ecocert supports Week Without Pesticides since its launch in 2006

Léa Nature - Established in 1993, Lea Nature manufactures and distributes exclusively natural and biological products for the benefit of the health and well-being. The company wishes to contribute to its scale, the emergence of a world greener, more environmentally friendly, sustainable, more equitable. Lea Nature organised a day of information the aftermath of the Week Without Pesticides

Patagonia Build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis.

Terre Vivante is a combination of "ecology" and a practice Publishing House. Its activities include the distribution to 29000 subscribers of the magazine "The Four Seasons gardening" (the first French magazine Organic Gardening, published in 1980) and a publishing house which publishes 6 to 8 new titles per year. In addition, Terre Vivante leads since 1984 a center for "discovery of ecology practice" which hosts about 25000 visitors a year to Mens (Isère). Terre Vivante presented a special page on gardening bio for the Week Without Pesticides.

Agir Pour l’Environnement (APE) is  a 1901 law association. Faced with industry lobbyists and the inertia of the political, APE is to be an effective tool for the mobilisation of civil society in environmental matters. Their requests are specific and targeted, the results are most often palpable and concrete. For each campaign, APE federates the maximum of different partners. This year, and the fact of the Week Without Pesticides, APE launched a major campaign on pesticides to which each person is invited to take part.

Fédération Nationale des Jardins Familiaux et collectif A French Association for the representation, the defence and the development of community gardens of family and workers. The FNJF began for some time towards a true reflection ecological gardening. An awareness of the members is underway. During the Week Without Pesticides, the FNJF launched an action to recover the synthetic pesticides and awareness actions on the ground.

Pesticide Action Network Europe To promote sustainable alternatives, PAN Europe co-ordinates and strengthens activities of European NGOs addressing pesticide problems. As part of the Week Without Pesticides, PAN Europe will participate in many activities including the surprise that really marked the campaign: the results of an european study on pesticides residus in wine.

L'Ecologiste is the French edition of The Ecologist. Quarterly, the magazine is organized around a central file of about thirty pages. The Ecologist contribute to the reflection and action ecologist on the main lines of our society. The magazine publishes an opportunity for an article about pesticides, written by Francis Veillerette

Jardiner Bio magazine is a magazine that gives you cool tips and tricks to cultivate your garden in an environmentally sound way. It's also background information on topics green. As part of the Week Without Pesticides, Jardiner Bio publishes a special insert about the event and a beautiful page promotion on march issue.

Nature et Progrès is an association of consumers and professionals united in a single movement for a farming respectful of humans, animals, plants and the planet. Nature and Progrès is also a publisher that for the Week Without Pesticides presented an article on this issue on his magazine .

The magazine S!lence is published since 1982. It is a link between all those who believe that it is possible to live differently. It publishes an opportunity for a special issue on the theme of pesticides with a superb article of journalist Fabrice Nicolino..