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The following material is republished with the permission of ARC2020 and was originally published on ARC2020’s website on February 1, 2024.<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Over the past couple of months, many angry farmers have taken tractors to the streets of major cities in protest. At first glance, the protests appear to have very little in common. In France and Germany, farmers are upset about the phasing out of tax breaks on agricultural diesel. In Spain they are against the government plans to curb water supply for irrigation. In Ireland, farmers marched with cows through the streets to protest restrictions on livestock farming. Polish, Hungarian, and Slovak farmers blocked the border with Ukraine for weeks to prevent the import of cheap grain from Ukraine.<\/p>\n

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This is not the first time European farmers have taken to the streets to express their discontent, but the scale of these protests is perhaps the most significant in EU history and has come as a surprise to many politicians. \u201cI think we all sense that there is an increasing division and polarisation when it comes to topics related to agriculture,\u201d EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said at the opening of the strategic dialogue for the future of agriculture in Brussels on January 25, 2024.<\/p>\n

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The response of European politicians to the farmer protests has so far been\u00a0characterised by short-term concessions<\/a>\u00a0and small fixes that have failed to address underlying structural issues.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, all these protests \u2013 even so different in their triggers \u2013 are a manifestation of a very fundamental problem, namely:\u00a0the systemic crisis of neoliberal agriculture<\/strong>. The last four decades have been characterised by the spread of neoliberalism in all spheres of life, including agriculture. Based on free market capitalism and laissez-faire policies, neoliberalism offered a market-based solution to socio-economic problems.<\/p>\n

The modernisation paradigm \u2013 that prevailed in European agriculture and rural development policies \u2013 suggested that industrialisation and commercialisation of agriculture would not only increase food security, but would also constitute a powerful engine of overall economic development. This did make European agriculture more cost-efficient and technologically oriented, but it also created many other problems that farmers have to face today.<\/p>\n

The EU\u2019s Common Agricultural Policy aimed to \u201cmodernise\u201d farmers by turning them into market-oriented capitalist entrepreneurs focused on constant growth and expansion. Many farmers have found themselves trapped in a vicious circle of scale enlargement, technologically driven intensification and increasing dependency on powerful agricultural corporations, banks, and supermarket chains. They have to either surrender to this dominance and continue their expansion, or go out of business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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