Markus Wild

Feb 16, 2024 | eurozine.com | Fabien Perrier |Oana Filip |Staffan Graner |Markus Wild

Two billion euros! This may be the cost of the series of climatic disasters that hit the country between mid-July and mid-September, as estimated by Moschos Korasidis, managing director of the National Union of Agricultural Cooperatives of Greece. Giorgos Stratakos, secretary general of the Greek ministry of agriculture, agrees: ‘It’s a global problem’. The fires first ravaged the area around Alexandroupoli, the main town in the agricultural region of Evros in the northeast of the country.

Dec 26, 2023 | eurozine.com | Markus Wild

My grandmother loathed chicken. During the Second World War she was forced to kill and pluck hens. The smell stuck in her nose and she never got it out. Like other Swiss farmers of her generation, in the 1970s and 1980s she bought up battery hens to free them from their caged existence. The exhausted birds, their pink flesh bulging between their dishevelled white feathers, learnt to scratch for food with their knotted claws. I knew nothing about their past.