Dutch pro-farming party fires up the anti-establishment vote

BoerBurgerBeweging (Farmer-Citizen Movement) is fielding more than 300 candidates in next year’s elections. Photograph: Robin Utrecht/Rex/Shutterstock

The old Dutch word noaberschap denotes a countryside kinship under which farmers would help each other out in the event of disaster.

Now the concept of neighbourly kinship is being revived in the Netherlands by a political party called the BoerBurgerBeweging (BBB) – meaning Farmer-Citizen Movement – which is gaining ever more attention in the “tiny country that feeds the world”.