farmers

Polish farmers used their tractors to block a major highway crossing the border with Germany in an ongoing protest against European Union agricultural 'green' policy and duty-free imports from Ukraine.

After French farmers stepped up protests that included road blockades, the government promised to extend protections – including better controlling competing imports and giving farmers additional aid.

Henrik and Lana cover some of the latest invader news and more in Flashback Friday February 2, 2024.
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Macron's government plans to remove tax breaks to farmers for agricultural diesel that will affect their costs. France imported more than half its chicken in 2022 from Belgium, Poland and Brazil. France lost has 20% (101,000) of its farms between 2010 and 2020, according to a recent survey.

The German government proposed slashing a tax break on diesel used in agricultural machinery, worth over $3000 a year to each farmer, that has led to German farmers protesting and blocking highway entrances with their tractors.

The BJP-led government in India is seeking to extract revenge for the humiliating defeat it suffered at the hands of farmers whose one-year agitation led to the repeal of three farm laws in late 2021. This claim was made during a recent press conference in Delhi held by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) (United Farmers Front). […]

Bayer, which profits from various environmentally harmful and disease-causing chemicals like glyphosate, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) “to develop resource-efficient, climate-resilient solutions for crops, varieties, crop protection, weed and mechanization”.  The ICAR, an apex public sector institution, is responsible for co-ordinating agricultural education and research […]

South Africa: There have been 6 killings since July 29, 2023, when Marxist leader Julius Malema sang “Kill the Boer” (a reference to white South Africans) for the first time in 10 years, in front of 90,000 supporters in Johannesburg.

The prevailing globalised agrifood model is built on unjust trade policies, the leveraging of sovereign debt, population displacement and land dispossession. It fuels commodity monocropping and food insecurity as well as soil and environmental degradation. It is responsible for increasing rates of illness, nutrient-deficient diets, a narrowing of the range of food crops, water shortages, […]

Industry figures and scientists claim pesticide use and GMOs are necessary in ‘modern agriculture’. But this is not the case: there is now sufficient evidence to suggest otherwise. It is simply not necessary to have our bodies contaminated with toxic agrochemicals, regardless of how much global agribusiness firms try to reassure us that they are present in ‘safe’ […]