In the 1990s, some researchers observed that French people—despite eating lots of saturated fat—tended to have low rates of heart disease. Dubbing this phenomenon the “French paradox,” the researchers speculated that regular wine consumption may be protecting their hearts from disease.

The French government recently announced an ambitious research programme as part of its plan to fight for the survival of its declining vineyards. Here's a look at the reason behind the project. For any wine fans out there, it may come as a surprise that something so synonymous with France is battling to survive.

Naïo Technologies is currently running its Dino autonomous vegetable weeding robot in California. Naïo’s local representative Simon Belin shares his experiences with Dino in the USA.

They’ve provided us with companionship and purpose during the darkest days of lockdown, not to mention brightening our Instagram feeds.

Beret, baguette, and bottle of wine. It’s a caricature we all know well. And without that bottle? Well, it just wouldn’t be French, now would it?

As the farmers' protests continue in various regions of Europe, the primary question on the minds of South African agriculturalists is what implications, if any, these will have on local production and exports.

The road leading to the Taaibosch estate runs alongside a property with a familiar name: Courchevel. Further up the road is a farm called Navarre. French place names are not uncommon in the Cape region, where Protestant Huguenots took refuge after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. Some of them cultivated vines on farms which, three centuries later, are now renowned estates. However, a new chapter is about to begin, one of a vineyard growing in reputation and attracting new foreign investors, including French ones, who own around 15 estates.