Themed fortnight 01Biodiversity
In order to stop biodiversity loss, it is primordial to be willing to make collective and coordinated efforts at the local, national, and international scales.
Challenges of the Biodiversity themed fortnight
Our already weakened ecosystems are still being deteriorated. Yet, our survival depends on their protection. Biodiversity answers mankind's primary needs, allows it to develop its agricultural and scientific activites while protecting it from envrionmental risks.
Carrying out this biodiversity restoration work is crucial and needs to go hand-in-hand with preservation to slow down the effects that we observe around the world regarding our quality of life. In order to stop biodiversity loss, it is primordial to be willing to make collective and coordinated efforts at the local, national, and international scales.
Event programming on the France Pavilion
Lightspeed Inspiration Day : Darker night, brighter future - October 9th, 2021
Light serves as the thematic guideline for the France Pavilion as it is the central element of its architecture and programming. Light is a rich concept: being both a physical phenomenon that allows visual perception and a unit that measures speed and time, light is also the symbol of knowledge and ideas.
The France Pavilion and the French office for biodiversity invite visitors to reflect on the dark side of light by devoting a specific day to light pollution. This type of pollution is defined by the presence of artificial lighting, which disturbs fauna, flora, and humans, also preventing the observation of night skies. The France Pavilions aims at raising awareness on this issue and to showcase initiatives and technologies that contribute to a future where the wonders of the night skies can be seen again.
Les Compagnons du Miel, Thematic Sponsor for the Biodiversity Fortnight
Les Compagnons du Miel is a unique cooperative in France with the Agri-éthique (Ethical Agriculture) certification. Present throughout the country, the 129 beekeepers of Les Compagnons du Miel produce honeys that reflect the unique attributes of their local environments, allowing consumers to explore the many varieties of honey available, while also helping new generations understand the importance of beekeeping.
Les Compagnons du Miel is the Thematic sponsor for the France Pavilion's fortnight dedicated to Biodiversity.
Les Compagnons du Miel in a nutshell
Les Compagnons du Miel represents 129 beekeepers in France carrying the ‘Agri-éthique’ (Ethical Agriculture) certification, and is a French fair-trade business. With members spread across the whole of France, Les Compagnons du Miel produces honeys that reflect the unique attributes of their local environments, allowing consumers to explore the many varieties of honey available, while also helping new generations understand the importance of beekeeping.
Ever since its creation in 1958, the cooperative has maintained a firm commitment to creating a stable and dynamic beekeeping sector in France:
- Guaranteed quality and traceability: all our honeys are subject to lab analysis in order to guarantee their origin, quality and authenticity
- Preserving biodiversity: a pollination network of 56,600 hives to help protect biodiversity
- Sensible and sustainable beekeeping: an ethical and progressive approach in which every member of Les Compagnons du Miel is actively engaged, solidified through its cooperative Charter.
- Safeguarding bee populations: beekeeping practices, bee health and well-being (‘well-beeing’, if you will), raising awareness among younger generations: Les Compagnons du Miel works every day to protect our bees, both today and in the future.
- Complete transparency: honey without the middleman, straight from producer to consumer
- Fair prices for producers and consumers: the first honey produced by French fair-trade farmers to carry the ‘Agri-ethique’ (Ethical Agriculture) label, using a business model unlike any other in France’s beekeeping sector.
Les Compagnons du Miel in figures
beekepers are members of the co-operative in 2020: 124 in France and 5 in Spain
honeys produced: 30 French honeys, 2 of which are organic & 4 Spanish honeys
beehives, that ensure the pollination of thousands of vegetal species and the conservation of biodiversity
“ At Expo 2020 Dubai, France will be particularly focusing on the theme of Biodiversity, and the urgent need to agree upon collective and coordinated efforts at local, national and international levels in order to halt its destruction. In this context, the partnership with Les Compagnons du Miel is a natural choice: the organisation is a French co-operative certified with the ‘Agri-éthique’ (Ethical Agriculture) label, and a fair-trade business offering premium-quality honey with 100% traceable origins, while also working to foster closer links between producers and consumers.
Moreover, bringing the cooperative on board for this international event is testament to our determination to mobilise the full range of our national talents in order to provide a truly collective response to our environmental needs.” ”
Les Compagnons du Miel, thematic sponsor of the France Pavilion
The France Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai is delighted to announce that Les Compagnons du Miel beekeepers’ cooperative has joined the Pavilion as a Thematic Sponsor. In Dubai, Les Compagnons du Miel will showcase the beekeeping sector’s vital importance for regional biodiversity, working via a cooperative model unlike any other in France.
“ Our primary ambition is to raise public awareness of the impact of climate change on biodiversity and bee populations. Our second objective is to promote the unique attributes of our cooperative model for beekeeping, with collective and ethical values that allow us to structure a practical, effective approach to sustainable development.
The incredible variety of honey types produced in France is a reflection of our beekeepers’ expertise and the country’s rich diversity of flora, and yet remains relatively little-known outside our own borders. We have no doubt that visitors will be surprised and delighted by our honey tastings at the Dubai World Expo!
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Les Compagnons du Miel is the Thematic sponsor for the France Pavilion's fortnight dedicated to Biodiversity.
Photo Exhibition of Vu' Agency
Discover French innovative companies
In partnership with Business France, the France Pavilion highlights some solutions developped by French companies regarding Biodiversity.
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In partnership with Business France, the France Pavilion highlights some solutions developped by French companies regarding Biodiversity.
Innovafeed
Bioplants
Bleu-Blanc-Coeur
Nataïs
Savéol
The thematic Biodiversity seen by the students of the Ecole des Gobelins
The France Pavilion has collaborated with the students of the Bachelor Graphic Motion Designer Apprenticeship (GMDA) of the Gobelins School of the Image. Their artworks allow us to promote the major issues of the Biodiversity thematic to the international audience of the Exhibition.
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