Since January, the agricultural world has been in turmoil. The fault isproductivism, which has created a terribly fragile model: loneliness,debt, overconsumption of ever more expensive fuels, fertilizers andpesticides... As the depletion of resources and climate change causeprices to rise, the system is cracking. It's time to imagine anotherone. ---- Peasants feed society, therefore society owes them a fair andworthy retribution. There is nothing shocking about public money fuelinga vital productive sector.The problem is that subsidies from the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)are used to conform agriculture to a deadly model with no future:investing endlessly (and in vain) in mechanization, mega-basins,chemical inputs, pesticides. , the expansion of structures...The largest farms are the most subsidized. Small and small farmers areleft behind.The current system is heading towards the wallEver larger farms, ever fewer workers, excessive working hours, everlower pay (18% of farmers live below the poverty line), a 30.9% higherrisk of suicide. to that of the rest of the population, a headlong rushinto mechanization, chemical inputs, pesticides, the hoarding of seedsand water... Capitalism is exhausting the planet's resources. The risein the price of gas, oil, electricity and the scarcity of water arestructural and will continue. The price of chemical inputs will riseaccordingly. Continuing to invest in fertilizers, pesticides,mega-basins, persisting in a system with no future, is condemningfarmers to strangulation.Demands that lead to an impasseDemanding subsidies or tax breaks to be able to continue to buy fuel,fertilizers and pesticides is a survival solution, but in the mediumterm, it is heading into the wall. This is the logic pushed by thebanks, the seed companies, the chemical industry, the FNSEA, the RuralCoordination and the far right, out of a thirst for profit, electoraldemagoguery, or both at the same time.The proposal of another trajectoryThe Peasant Confederation offers alternatives: guaranteed agriculturalprices; repeal of free trade, anti-social and anti-ecological treaties;substantial aid for the agroecological transition; priority for theinstallation of young farmers, rather than the expansion of structures;stopping the artificialization of land; creation of "social food security".The need for an anti-capitalist transformationBut in the agricultural sector as elsewhere, the need is for an exitfrom capitalism.like other vital economic sectors, agriculture should become a publicservice, based on health and ecological standards that respect thehealth of workers and consumers;all voluntary farms and work collectives should be able to join thispublic service;income would be guaranteed, encouraging the establishment of farmers,their growth, the expansion of collectives, the reduction of working hours;democratic planning, according to coherent territorial levels, shouldavoid overproduction;the importation of agricultural products should be limited to whatcannot be produced locally.It would therefore not be a question of creating kolkhozes with corporallabor, but of moving towards a free and voluntary socialization ofagriculture, which corresponds both to peasant aspirations for autonomy,and to the needs of the population. .Sources: Insee 2020, MSA 2023, Report no. 21040 from the Ministry ofAgriculture, January 30, 2023.https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Des-solutions-radicales-pour-le-monde-agricole_________________________________________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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