In a system where economic growth dominates, the work of Walloon farmers is under pressure. They unite, but despair grows. A sensitive portrait that painfully reveals how the agricultural crisis has been decades in the making.
Il a plu sur le grand paysage sensitively sketches a number of portraits of Walloon farmers. They talk about their love for their work and how caring for their plants and animals is under pressure in a system in which economic growth dominates. Small-scale but also large-scale farms struggle for survival. The farmers unite to face the problems but despair grows. It becomes painfully apparent how today’s agricultural crisis has been decades in the making.