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‘We have reached the end of our rope.’ Why farmers around the world are protesting

By Ali Rogin, Claire Mufson

From quiet fields to busy city streets, farmers around the world have launched protests in recent weeks, demanding relief from what they say is a crisis driven by climate change policies, red tape and crop prices. Ali Rogin reports.

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Protesting Greek farmers debate next moves after government offers concessions

By Associated Press

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has offered some concessions to farming unionists who are threatening to block roads around the country amid protests over high production costs.

Indian farmers continue protests, call for crop price reform and more

By Krutika Pathi, Associated Press

The demand for legislation that will guarantee minimum support prices is at the heart of their protests.

Farmers in Italy, Spain and Poland protest over European Union policies

By Ciarán Giles, Monika Scislowska, Associated Press

The actions follow similar ones in other EU member nations in recent weeks with farmers complaining that the 27-nation bloc's environmental and other policies are a financial burden and make their products more expensive than non-EU imports.

Thousands of Spanish farmers stage a 2nd day of tractor protests over EU policies

By Ciarán Giles, Raf Cassert, Associated Press

Spanish farmers blocked highways and caused traffic jams to demand changes in European Union farming policies. They are also calling for more funds and measures to combat production cost hikes and severe drought.

EU scraps pesticide proposal in another concession to protesting farmers

By Raf Cassert, Associated Press

Farmers have insisted that measures like the one on pesticides would increase the bureaucratic burden and add to the price gap between their products and cheap foreign imports.

As Europe’s farmers find common cause in grievances, governments race to offer concessions

By Derek Gatopoulos, Costas Kantouris, Associated Press

Protests have swept Europe as farmers on the continent take their grievances over inflation, foreign competition and the costs of combating climate change to the streets.

2 key French farmer unions suspend protests after government offers new measures

By Sylvie Corbet, Associated Press

Farmers have been protesting for days across the country to denounce low wages, heavy regulation and unfair competition from abroad.

Former Peruvian intelligence chief gets 19 years in prison for 1992 massacre of farmers

By Associated Press

Vladimiro Montesinos, the controversial intelligence chief of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, has been sentenced to 19 years and eight months in prison for the 1992 massacre of six farmers in the town of Pativilca.

Traffic-blocking farmers now closing in on EU capital in a protest seeking better market conditions

By Raf Cassert, Associated Press

The protests had an immediate impact. The European Commission announced plans to shield farmers from cheap exports from Ukraine during wartime and allow farmers to sidestep environmental rules.