Dutch pro-farming party fires up the anti-establishment vote

A movement rooted in a protest against plans to cut livestock numbers is rapidly picking up rural support in the NetherlandsThe old Dutch word noaberschap denotes a countryside kinship under which farmers would help each other out in the event of disaster.Now the concept of neighbourly kinship is being revived in the Netherlands by a political party called the BoerBurgerBeweging (BBB) - meaning Farmer-Citizen Movement - which is gaining ever more attention in the "tiny country that feeds the world". Continue reading...