Agrifood Brief: A sad tale from the farm

This week, EURACTIV travelled to the Vendée region of Western France to meet two generations of a farming family who are struggling to make ends meet amid rising costs and a rapidly changing society.

Vendée is a small agricultural and seaside territory in southern Brittany, best known in France for staging an (unsuccessful) revolt against the nascent Republic at the end of the 18th century in the hope of restoring the power of the King.

This civil war, which resulted in several hundred thousand deaths on both sides, has left a strong mark on the area.

It was in this region that EURACTIV went to meet the Chiron family. (...)