The Fédération nationale des syndicats d'exploitants agricoles (FNSEA; ) is a French umbrella organisation charged with the national representation of 20,000 local
syndicat agricoles
(agricultural unions)) and 22 regional federations.
Establishment
The
Vichy regime
Vichy France (; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State ('), was a French rump state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II, established as a result of the French capitulation after the defeat against ...
's
Peasant Corporation
The Peasant Corporation () was a Paris-based organization created in Vichy France to support a corporatist structure of agricultural syndicates. The Ministry of Agriculture was unenthusiastic and undermined the corporation, which was launched with ...
was dissolved after the
Liberation of France
The liberation of France () in the Second World War was accomplished through diplomacy, politics and the combined military efforts of the Allied Powers, Free French forces in London and Africa, as well as the French Resistance.
Nazi Germany in ...
in September 1944, but the unity of agricultural organisations that it had established persisted.
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. Many of the former Peasant Corporation leaders became leaders of the FNSEA.
See also
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Chamber of Agriculture in France
References
Sources
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External links
Official FNSEA website
Farmers' organizations
Agricultural organizations based in France
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