2023–2024 European Union farmers' protests

The 2024 European farmers' protests are a series of protests by farmers that have been occurring since December 2023. The farmers have protested against low food prices, proposed environmental regulations (such as a carbon tax, pesticide bans, nitrogen emissions curbs and restrictions on water and land usage), and trade in agricultural products with non-European Union member states, such as Ukraine and the Mercosur bloc of South America. The protests take place in a context of the Common Agricultural Policy, a program where the EU provides €57 billion in subsidies to farmers (approximately a quarter of all EU subsidies).

Under the European Green Deal, which aimed at making the European bloc carbon-neutral by 2050, farmers would need to devote 4% of their arable land to non-productive purposes and reduce the use of fertilizer by 20%. In response to the protests, the EU backtracked on policies to consider farming emissions in its 2040 climate roadmap, a law to cut pesticide use and delaying implementation of a target for farmers to leave some land fallow to improve biodiversity. In France and Germany, farmers protested against proposals to scrap tax breaks for agricultural diesel. The farmers also protested against the EU–Mercosur free trade agreement. In the Netherlands, farmers protested against reductions in nitrogen emissions.

The methodology of the farmers is often street blockades and protesting. There are also often occupations, demonstrations, illegal dumping and barricades done by farmers, especially in the Netherlands and France.