Archive for October, 2009
Shifting ground: An artist’s unrequested inquiry into European agricultural policies
Constituting almost half of the EU’s budget, agricultural subsidies have long been (in)famous for their production of excess: mountains of butter and lakes of wine. Today the grounds are shifting. A new agricultural paradigm is taking form in which subsidies have been decoupled from production. Farmers no longer receive support to (over) produce, but to […]