Conference "From yesterday's wars to today's agriculture: pesticides and dioxins in the Indochinese peninsula".

Online videoconferencing.

This videoconference will bring together several teacher-researchers from the interdisciplinary research program on the consequences of environmental pollution by Agent Orange and pesticides used by farmers in the Indochinese Peninsula (PAGOPI). Initiated in 2019 with the support of the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme de Montpellier (MSHSUD), this program gave rise to an initial series of research missions in 2019, before being temporarily interrupted by the pandemic in 2020.

Introduced and moderated by historian Pierre Journoud, the conference will take place in the presence of Tran To Nga, a Franco-Vietnamese victim of Agent Orange who is fighting not only for herself and her family, but also for hundreds of families bereaved by the consequences of chemical warfare in Vietnam. In 2014, Tran To Nga filed a lawsuit against Monsanto and some twenty other chemical firms that produced and marketed the defoliants used during the Vietnam War, including Agent Orange. After a long break, the trial resumes precisely this Monday, January 25.

This conference provides a better understanding of the impact of the "chemical war" in Viet-Nam, and the consequences for the current use of dioxins and pesticides.

• Follow the conference online

• See the report "Vietnam: Agent Orange faces French justice".