Translation of "Culture de rechange " (French → English) :

Agrifood exports to the U.S. risk being significantly diminished and the overall global competitiveness of Canadian agriculture stifled due to a reduction of vital crop protection products in Canada without adequate, or in some cases any, alternatives.

Decision IX/6 states that methyl bromide should qualify as ‘critical’ only if the applicant determines that the lack of availability of methyl bromide for that specific use would result in a significant market disruption; and that there are no technically and economically feasible alternatives or substitutes available to the user that are acceptable from the standpoint of environment and health and are suitable to the crops and circumstances of the nomination. Furthermore, the production and consumption, if any, of methyl bromide for critical uses should be permitted only if all technically and economically feasible steps have been take ...[+++]n to minimise the critical use and any associated emission of methyl bromide.

L. whereas, in rural areas, biofuels can create much more employment than fossil fuel alternatives and can even provide a genuine socio-economic alternative in many areas affected by a decline in or the disappearance of native crops subject to CAP reforms, as in the case of sugar beet and cotton,

It has appeared that these substances are, at this point of time, indispensable to the cultivation of various crops and that only by increased research efforts it will be possible to find on medium or long term appropriate alternative solutions.

It has appeared that these substances are, at this point of time, indispensable to the cultivation of various crops and that only by increased research efforts it will be possible to find on medium or long term appropriate alternative solutions.

Generally speaking, there are no alternative crops for tobacco farmers which would not involve dangerous social costs in the future. When, in the few richer regions where tobacco is grown, alternative crops do exist, the change-over would mean that well-organized and technically experienced former tobacco farmers would constitute a threat to existing farmers, e.g. in the fruit and vegetables sector, which itself is already limited by a market increasingly open to globalization.