No less than 40,000 Small Farms have Disappeared in Three Years in France, warns a Study

AGRICULTURE: According to Terre de Liens, which is based on data from the Ministry of Agriculture, “40,000 small farms have disappeared in just three years”, mainly absorbed by other farms

Some “40,000 small farms have disappeared in just three years”, warns Land of Links. “And with them, the capacity of our towns and villages to produce local, quality food”. The site presents itself as “a citizen movement aimed at preserving agricultural land and enabling the installation of farmers in ecological agriculture”.

The media relies on data from the Ministry of Agriculture. “Small farms are disappearing in French municipalities, mainly absorbed by other farms”, evoke the authors of this study, with an accessible map open source. “We are witnessing a real low-noise social plan which goes hand in hand with an unprecedented concentration of farms in France”, estimates Coline Sovran, advocacy officer for Terre de Liens.

At mayors’ lounge which opens this Tuesday at the Porte de Versailles, in Paris, these activists will try to alert local elected officials to this bleeding and give them the means to stop it. The movement offers tools to make agricultural land accessible, identify and develop agricultural land or even create operating conditions that protect water resources.