Occupy agriculture! Polish farmers sit in for land and freedom

http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2799306/occupy_agriculture_polish_farmers_sit_in_for_land_and_freedom.html
Date Written:  2015-03-19
Publisher:  Ecologist
Year Published:  2015
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX17409

At the heart of Poland's capital, Warsaw, farmers have founded a flourishing encampment known as the 'Green City', writes Julian Rose. It's a focus of protest against the sell-off of their land to agribusiness, the arrival of GMO crops, and the imposition of a failed 'Western' model of farming that's creating huge corporate profits while debasing food and bankrupting small farmers.

Subject Headings

• Agriculture
• Agriculture/Land-Use Issues
• Land Seizures
• Land Takeovers
• Poland