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The government unveils its plan for agriculture in the face of peasant discontent
Published on 04/02/2024 at 11:09 p.m. Photo credit © Reuters PARIS (Reuters) – The French government…
The government unveils its plan for agriculture in the face of peasant discontent
PARIS (Reuters) – The French government presented on Wednesday its bill “guidance for agricultural sovereignty and the renewal of generations in agriculture”, a text eagerly awaited by farmers who have…
The peasant, or the fantasized imagination of a disappearing world
Earthenware pitchers bearing the image of The Angelusfrom Millet, which can still be found in flea markets, timeless Martine on the farm, the imagery around the peasantry has changed less…
“The future will only be assured with peasant agriculture based on agroecology”
NOTOur agriculture is in an impasse and the French peasantry has many reasons to be worried about its future. The EGalim laws have not been able to ensure a decent…
The peasant, this French pride whose story tells of the divisions of the agricultural world
History of a concept. It appears on the t-shirts of angry farmers and appears in political speeches. While the word “peasant” is no longer used in other European countries, in…
The Peasant Confederation is outraged after the evacuation by the police of its blockades
Blocking of the Saint-Quentin-Fallavier toll, in Isère, on the A43 by farmers on February 2, 2023 (AFP/JEFF PACHOUD) After the voluntary lifting of most of the roadblocks of farmers in…
Lifting of the last two blockages of the Peasant Confederation
Blocking of the Saint-Quentin-Fallavier toll, in Isère, on the A43 by farmers on February 2, 2023 (AFP/JEFF PACHOUD) The last two blockades of the Peasant Confederation, including that of the…
Lifting of the last two blockages of the Peasant Confederation
The last two blockades of the Peasant Confederation, including that of the Saint-Quentin-Fallavier (Isère) toll on the A43, were on Saturday in the process of being lifted by the police,…
“In its post-war clothes, agrarianism takes note of the transition from the peasant condition to that of a producer”
March 18, 1945: while the war continues beyond the Rhine, the first official congress of the General Confederation of Agriculture, born in the maquis, ends at the Paris City Hall.…
Marc Fesneau goes to Brussels on Wednesday, the Peasant Confederation calls for blocking wholesale markets
What are the three main French agricultural unions? The FNSEA, largely in the majority The National Federation of Farmers’ Unions (FNSEA) claims more than 200,000 members. It is hegemonic within…
Gabriel Attal announces aid and simplifications without defusing the peasant rebellion
MONTASTRUC-DU-SALIES, Haute-Garonne (Reuters) – Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced on Friday a series of administrative simplification measures and the cancellation of the increase in the tax on non-road diesel (GNR)…
Against the backdrop of peasant anger, broken promises on agricultural pensions
The presidents of the Young Farmers, Arnaud Gaillot, and of the FNSEA, Arnaud Rousseau, in front of the Hôtel de Matignon, January 22, 2024. DIMITAR DILKOFF / AFP Without being…