Reading Time: 2 minutes Protesting Greek farmers closed an airport on the island of Crete, blocked roads and border crossings and hurled rocks at police during a nationwide demonstration on Monday triggered by funding delays.
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Greek farmers block borders, airport and roads in protest at delayed EU funds
Ontario ag-gag appeal concludes, court ruling pending
Animal advocates argue law violates free expression; province defends focus on trespass, not speech
Reading Time: 3 minutes Animal rights advocates challenge the constitutionality of Ontario’s Security from Trespass Act, arguing it stifles undercover exposés and infringes on Charter freedoms; government defends the law as targeting trespass, not speech.
Police prevent Indian Punjabi farmers marching to Delhi to demand better prices
Reading Time: 2 minutes Indian police used tear gas and pepper spray against dozens of farmers who began marching from Punjab state along a key highway to Delhi on Friday to demand better prices for their crops.
Thousands of British farmers protest against ‘tractor tax’ on inheritance
Reading Time: 2 minutes Thousands of farmers protested at Britain's parliament on Tuesday, some driving tractors through central London, to demand the scrapping of an inheritance tax that they say will destroy family farms and threaten food production.
UK retail industry plays down threat to food supplies from possible farmer strikes
Reading Time: < 1 minute Britain's retail industry on Monday played down the likelihood of possible farmer strikes over the government's inheritance tax measure impacting food availability, saying the nation's food retailers are adept at dealing with disruption.
French farmers back on the streets as Mercosur talks fuel discontent
Reading Time: 3 minutes Farmers will protest across France on Monday as the prospect of a trade deal between European and Mercosur countries sharpens discontent over foreign competition that fuelled a farming crisis earlier this year.
European farmers kick off protests against EU-Mercosur trade deal
Reading Time: 2 minutes European farmers started protests against the EU-Mercosur free trade deal on Wednesday, saying increased South American imports will hurt the European Union's agriculture, and the largest French farm union called for nationwide actions from Monday.
EU allows member states to boost farmer payments after protests
Reading Time: < 1 minute European Union member states can increase the funds they pay to farmers, the European Commission said on Friday, after protests by farmers earlier in the year forced policymakers to scale back climate rules.
Australian farmers protest animal, environment policies they say harm them
Reading Time: 2 minutes Hundreds of farmers from across Australia held a protest on Tuesday against government farming policies they said were influenced by environmental and animal welfare activists and which were harming their livelihoods.
Main farming groups shun Brussels protest against EU green policies
Reading Time: 2 minutes Farmers drove hundreds of tractors into Brussels on Tuesday to protest against the European Union's environmental policies, but the action was shunned by mainstream farming groups who said it did not reflect their members' concerns.
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