Fédération nationale des syndicats d'exploitants agricoles

Improvised road blockade in January 2024 by the FNSEA in Occitania at L'Isle-Jourdain

The Fédération nationale des syndicats d'exploitants agricoles (FNSEA; transl. National Federation of Agricultural Holders' Unions) is a French umbrella organisation charged with the national representation of 20,000 local syndicat agricoles (agricultural unions)) and 22 regional federations.^[1]

Establishment

The Vichy regime's Peasant Corporation was dissolved after the Liberation of France in September 1944, but the unity of agricultural organisations that it had established persisted.^[2]

The new Socialist Minister of Agriculture, François Tanguy-Prigent, replaced it with a national union of working farmers rather than landowners, the Confédération générale de l'agriculture (GCA).

In March 1946, the Fédération nationale des syndicats d'exploitants agricoles was created as a CGA branch, but it soon dominated the confederation.^[3] Many of the former Peasant Corporation leaders became leaders of the FNSEA.^[2]

References

1. "Entre agriculteurs et écolos, "le désamour est dans le pré"". l'Opinion. January 23, 2024.
2. Paxton 1997, p. 149.
3. Cordellier 2015.

Sources

• Cordellier, Serge (2015), Organisations professionnelles agricoles : histoire et pouvoirs, Cairn.info, retrieved 2024-12-12
• Paxton, Robert O. (1997-09-26), French Peasant Fascism : Henry Dorgeres' Greenshirts and the Crises of French Agriculture, 1929-1939: Henry Dorgeres' Greenshirts and the Crises of French Agriculture, 1929-1939, Oxford University Press, USA, ISBN 978-0-19-535474-4, retrieved 2016-03-03

External links

• Official FNSEA website