Working group on rural agriculture
| Working Group on Rural Agriculture (AbL) |
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| legal form | registered association |
| Seat | Hamm |
| founding | 1980 |
| Website | www.abl-ev.de |
In the working group for peasant agriculture e. V. (AbL) are mostly small and medium-sized farms in rural agriculture , but also consumers. The AbL states that the main goal is to “raise awareness of the social issue in agriculture in order to avoid that one-sidedly economically or ecologically based points of view ignore the people involved and thus the social impacts remain unconsidered. A second focus of the AbL's work is to initiate and advise projects in the field of quality production and regional marketing of agricultural products. "
The AbL sees itself as an opposition to the German Farmers' Association as a unified association of agricultural interest groups; the AbL sees the farmers' association as too one-sided representation of the interests of large agricultural enterprises and the agricultural industry . It publishes the magazine Independent Farmer's Voice every month, and since 1993 the anthology Der Kritische Agrarbericht (Critical Agricultural Report) also published annually by ABL-Verlag . The founding of the Agricultural Alliance goes back to her initiative .
The chairmen were Maria Heubuch and Bernd Voss , followed by Martin Schulz from Wendland. The office is located in Hamm (Westphalia) .
The AbL is a member of the international movement La Via Campesina and the campaign We are fed up with it! .
Web links
- Website of the AbL
- Website of the Independent Farmer Voice and the ABL publishing house
- Online edition of the Independent Farmer's Voice (PDF; 2.2 MB)
- Website of the AgrarBündnis eV and the critical agricultural report