On August 28, the Confédération paysanne and the Uprisings of the earth organized
a fharvest on the property of Bernard Arnault against land grabbing and thefinancialization of agriculture. ---- Land speculation is going well on the vinesof rosé de Provence and is attracting financial appetites. In recent years, theprice of land has been soaring and it has become unaffordable. While Safer, asemi-public body, can intervene in agricultural land transactions to regulatesale prices or redistribute land, it cannot, at present, intervene in thepurchase of shares in a company. ---- In 2019, the LVMH group took possession ofthe Château d'Esclans by buying 55% of the company's shares. In this way, itpasses under the radars of Safer. He then led a policy of expansion by buyingaround to now own more than 400 hectares, including 140 of vineyards. But thebulk of its production comes from the purchase of grapes from local winegrowerswhich, combined, represents more than 1000 ha. He is building a monopoly over anentire territory where land pressure is such that we have gone from 45,000 to120,000 euros per hectare in the space of ten years. If the example of LVHM isparticularly telling, it is not the only one to carry out this policy in Provence.Credit: peasant confederationGrapes of Wrath"Recovering the fruits of grabbing": on August 28, the Confédération Paysanne andthe Uprisings of the Earth harvested a plot of Château d'Esclans to then pressthe grapes in front of their new cellar-factory under construction. The 300people present demonstrated with joy and determination their desire to preservepeasant agriculture. This nationwide action is part of a series of actionsdenouncing land grabbing and promoting a protective land law for agricultural land.The phenomenon of land grabbing is neither new nor specific to France, but globalwarming puts us in front of a wall. The strong constraints to which agriculturewill be subjected will require a return to a diversification of productionsystems, contrary to the concentrations that standardize crops. It is through themultitude of small and medium-sized farms that we can create resilience and fooddiversity in a territory.The future is not the mass production of wine to conquer markets, the future isto produce to feed the region. Reclaiming these lands to redistribute them is theonly reasonable political option to carry !Georges Claas (UCL Var)https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?81-Confederation-paysanne-Vendanges-sauvages-chez-LVMH_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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