SAFER has nothing to do with health and safety as anglophones might guess, but is a departmental body designed to ensure that agricultural land is made available to young farmers, mainly by "preemption" of land offered for sale. When we bought the field adjoining our garden we were obliged to wait 3 months whilst it was offered via a notice published by SAFER to any young farmer wishing to buy at the price agreed.
Yesterday the meeting of the committee of the SAFER in Cahors was invaded by representatives of the Confederation Paysanne, an association of agricultural workers. The activists claimed that the body was acting in the interests of landowners and speculators and indeed a degree of corruption in preferring their own "friends" instead of young farmers.
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