0:04. 1:18. Just a few weeks after against government regulations and taxes began in Germany, are now “spreading across , with workers from countries including France and Poland disrupting transport routes over rising costs and burdensome regulations,” Bloomberg’s William Horobin and Milda Seputyte reported.

A drives a tractor bearing a sign that reads “No , no food,” during a ’ in Brussels, Belgium, Feb. 1, 2024 (Sipa photo by Hatim Kaghat via AP Images). In recent …

Outside , and even communist revolutions occurred in places like Russia, China, and Cuba where peasants and rural populations suffered extreme inequality and poverty.

participate in a road blockade as part of their protests. Mayank Makhija/NurPhoto via Getty Images. India’s have been protesting for months. An expert on India’s agricultural …

The provides $65 billion to each year. It’s the largest line item in the . budget and one of the biggest subsidy programs in the world.

The massive bill being considered by the House of Representatives — the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act (H.R. 1947) — exemplifies the regulatory excess that …

Tenets. One of the central arguments in economics, especially in the vs. capitalism debate, is the role of the government. A capitalist system is based on private ownership of the means of production and the creation of goods or services for profit. A system is characterized by social ownership of the means of production, e …

France reaffirms opposition to -Mercosur deal as ’ protests mount. The -Mercosur deal is the focus of all the criticism, given the huge amounts of agricultural imports planned to pour …

the right-wing political movement that was fiercely nationalistic, anti-democratic, anti-Marxist, and often anti-Semitic; it claimed to make the world safe for the middle class, small businesses, and small ; it believed that normal parliamentary politics sacrificed national honor and greatness to petty disputes; it usually led to single-party dictatorships characterized by terrorism and …

The police responded by using water cannon and tear gas. Dozens of tractors sealed off streets close to headquarters as protested anything from what they see as excessive red tape to increased environmental measures, cheap imports and unfair trading practices. (AP video: Sylvain Plazy)

Polish take part in a against imports of agriculture products from Ukraine as competition from the neighbouring country on January 24, 2024 in Ryki, Poland. With roadblocks and …

spray police with manure during a of in the Quarter outside a meeting of EU agriculture ministers in Brussels, Monday, Feb. 26, 2024. Union agriculture ministers meet in Brussels Monday to discuss rapid and structural responses to the crisis situation facing the agricultural sector.

. is an economic system in which there is government ownership (often referred to as “state run”) of goods and their production, with an impetus to share work and wealth equally among the members of a society. Under , everything that people produce, including services, is considered a social product.

Due to this, one cannot describe European countries as solely . The principles of state that it is a philosophy that can work hand in hand with other philosophies; because of this, one can note that European countries have a hybrid model. can be prefixed and suffixed to create hybrid models such as social …

14 March 2014. PA. Mr Benn was frequently at odds with others in his party. Tony Benn, who has died aged 88, was one of the most distinctive political figures of the past 60 years. His views on …

1818. The pastoralist herdsmen/ conflict across the country should fundamentally be seen as the inability of the capitalist ruling class to take society forward on the basis of capitalism. The particular clannish and nepotistic character of the current APC Federal Government tends to create the perspective that the insecurity across the …

By managing fewer resources more intensively, small are able to make more profit per unit of output, and thus, make more total profits—even if production of each commodity is less. 12 In overall output, the diversified produces much more food. In the United States the smallest two-hectare farms produced $15,104 per hectare and …

Protests in France and Poland have taken place to rally against strict farming regulations and rising costs. have put up blockades on major roads in …

A group not affiliated with Spain’s three main farming organizations has called for to move on Madrid at midnight for a Saturday protest near the headquarters of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s party. The demonstrations are expected to continue over the coming weeks with a major protest being organized in the capital for …

in majority of states have now joined the protest. The primary policy target of is a so-called to Fork program that seeks to halve pesticide use, reduce fertilizer use, cut by at least 10% agricultural areas and mandate a conversion of 25% of the ’s agricultural land to “organic-only” farming.

Gazing out from his 265-acre to the silhouetted Jura mountains in the distance, Jean-Michel Sibelle expounded on the intricate secrets of soil, climate and breeding that have made his …

Over half of the EU’s 9 million produce less than 4,000 euros of products per year and make up a combined 2 percent of ’s farm production, while the top 1 percent of …

angered by government plans that may require them to use less fertilizer and reduce livestock began a day of in the Netherlands on Monday by…

has never worked. It didn’t work before, or after, WW1 & WW2. It’s on life support now, and modern only thrives in because of the USA. Now that the US is declining, economically and culturally, we see that ‘s is finally coming to fruition; and it’s falling apart everywhere. Cypurs, Greece, Spain, etc.

and the Market: Returning to the East European Debate. May 2021. New Political Economy 28 (3):1-12. DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2021.1926958. Authors: Roland Boer. To read the full-text of …

is a think tank that aims to stimulate thinking on rural economies in the . The think tank focuses on all policy areas that impact on rural business with a strong emphasis on agriculture and food policies, particularly the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), but also food standards, the food chain, environment, energy and trade issues.

Published in May 2020, the F2F strategy outlines how the wants to overhaul the food system to make it “fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly.”. This future “ to fork” food system would incorporate primary production (farming), the supply (value) chain and consumption. It shall have a neutral or positive environmental impact …

falls out of favor. In 1917 at the height of World War I, a group of tenant in Oklahoma staged a revolt along the banks of the South Canadian River. This uprising, known as the Green Corn Rebellion, was in protest of the country’s forced draft or conscription policy. According to the Oklahoma Historical Society, “men …

‘s are in revolt. The fury has led to road blockages and tractor parades in the past few weeks, with taking their protests to the street in France, Germany, Poland and …

The current revival has deep historical roots. Its origins lay in the restructuring of American capitalism beginning in the 1970s. The decades since have witnessed a steady rise in social inequality and economic insecurity and a concomitant decline in wage growth and unionization (a familiar story for advanced capitalist democracies during these years).

leaders vowed to ease the burden of environmental rules in an attempt to quell protests by , who demolished statues and started fires in Brussels during a summit on Thursday. European …

This is the third story in a three-part Mongabay miniseries on the Dutch nitrogen crisis and of 2022: The Dutch, and , green agenda crashes into the continent’s food systems.

’s agricultural sector is giving a different meaning to “farm-to-road” as a wave of has been spreading across the continent, demanding government policies to reflect the needs of the industry. The Netherlands started the wave with Dutch staging over their government’s environmental regulations proposals …

The history of the Group is a story of passion, conviction and perseverance in the pursuit of social justice and a fairer . From its humble beginnings as a group of like-minded socialists who joined forces to promote European unity in the aftermath of World War II, the Group has grown into a formidable political force that champions the values of democracy, solidarity, and progress.

The strategy would devastate . The U.S. Department of Agriculture finds that the strategy’s goals of reducing farmland by 10%, fertilizer by 20%, and pesticides and …

The Common Agricultural Policy is funded through the budget. Under the ‘s budget for 2021-2027, €386.6 billion has been set aside for farming. It is divided into two parts: €291.1 billion for the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund, which provides income support for . €95.5 billion for the European Agricultural Fund for Rural …

world, where used new technologies and practices to increase productivity in a range of social, economic, political, and climatic con-ditions. First in the United States, and then in in the postwar years, came to rely on what one historian labels “the whole package of modernity,” including irrigation, chemicals …

In the years to come, highly varying privatization and reform policies across the region turned the set of post- countries into a laboratory of restructuring. After the first transition decade, Swinnen and Rozelle ( 2006 ) documented how land restitution, the rise of land rental and the recapitalization of large farms had spurred …

Merriam-Webster defines as “ any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods”, or more succinctly, as “a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state”.

The historical legacy of work relations in agriculture is discussed in Section 3. To clarify terms, some formal notation is introduced first. A model of monetary pay systems Consider a worker supplying effort to the production process of a . The ’s revenue e accrues q to the owner and is a function of e. However, because …