Boerenbond

For the ceramic pattern, see Boerenbont.
Boerenbond
Founded1890
HeadquartersDiestsevest 40,
3000 Leuven
Location
Key people
Sonja De Becker
Websiteboerenbond.be

The Boerenbond (Dutch: [ˌbuːrə(m)ˈbɔnt] ⓘ; German: Bauernbund [ˈbaʊɐnˌbʊnt]; lit. 'Farmers' League') is a professional association of farmers active in the Flemish and German-speaking communities of Belgium. Founded in 1890 and based in Leuven, the Boerenbond is an organisation promotes the interests of farmers working within its regions of activity and has historically been closely associated with Catholic political parties.

In the 1920s, it had 100,000 members divided into 1,050 guilds, and it was "intimately connected with the Catholic church". In politics, it was "an important part of the strong Catholic party".[1]

The organisation is politically right-wing and has historically been influential within national Christian Democratic politics. Today it has particular prominence within the Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams (CD&V) and Christlich Soziale Partei (CSP) parties.

The Boerenbond competes with the rival Algemeen Boerensyndicaat (ABS) organisation.

List of presidents

References

  1. ^ "Belgian Peasants Increased Savings During Occupation", The Wall Street Journal, 22 December 1922, p. 13. (Newspapers.com)

Further reading

  • Segers, Yves; Hermans, Roeland (April 1981). "Between ideology and science: higher agricultural education in Belgium and the development of a Catholic agricultural network, 1850–1914". Journal of Contemporary History. 16 (2): 293–322. JSTOR 260576.
  • Hervieu, Bertrand, ed. (1992). Les Syndicats agricoles en Europe. Paris: L'Harmattan. ISBN 2-7384-1677-2.
  • Bisschop, Chantal (October 2011). "Making a Rural Movement: The Farmers' Union's Answer to a Changing Rural World in Flanders, from the 1960s to the 1970s". Rural History. 22 (2): 227–49. doi:10.1017/s0956793311000045. S2CID 162990107.
  • Bisschop, Chantal (2013). "Les guildes rurales du Boerenbond en Flandre (1972-1990)". Courrier Hebdomadaire du CRISP. 31–32 (2196–2197).
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