Do not miss this Sunday and free podcast broadcast on France Inter, the excellent program INTERCEPTIONS dedicated this Sunday with the peasant women. Poignant.
They called Janine, Claire, Claudia, Emily or Martine
... All are defined as women on earth. Women
Earth Volunteers, as Martine, the former hairdresser who married agriculture by marrying her husband, leaving behind her high heels and lipstick; Claire at the head of a herd of a hundred cows, and never wanted to do something despite the 70 hours weekly, or Emily, the young student of the agricultural college of Périgueux who wants to start the breeding of goats despite the reservations of his parents.
Women of land out of obligation, because born on a farm, as Janine, 80 years, which was never given the choice, and whose life work it is now worth € 696 pension, or Claudine, who took over from his parents on the farm and who regrets the 70s when, working, we could live well, or even Janine, 74, for whom the peasant union action was the only real window to the outside world ... These farmers
Perigord lived, live or are about to experience all the difficulties of peasantry: machismo, hard work, insufficient income, agricultural future unreadable ... but yet, not one wants to reverse. Not even
Janine explains that decidedly in Occitan, the policies "do not care much" for farmers.
Farmer and proud of being: a story of Valerie Dejean and Lionel Bechadergue. Sunday February 27 at 9:10 in Intercept, the magazine reporter for France Inter.
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For more information, essential two books
François KOLLAR : 267, [1] p., [4] p. pl. : Ill. (Some col.) Maps, 22 cm.
ISBN: 9782753802308
SUBJECT: Organic farming. Sustainable Agriculture.
Agriculture Environmental aspects.
Agriculture Economic aspects France. France 
Agricultural Policy. publisher: Monaco: Alpheus
Publication: 2007
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