Fields of Power

In the final episode of Fields of Power, we step back from the land grabbing cases we've traced across Hungary and ask a deeper question: what does land have to do with democracy? Episode 4: Land & Democracy Péter and Ian begin on a small farm outside Budapest, where Katalin, an agroecological farmer, is experimenting with another way of living and growing food. Her garden is not just about vegeta...

Episode 2 of Fields of Power moves from the aisles of a Hungarian supermarket into the hidden machinery of a political-economic system where land, food, and power are tightly intertwined. Péter and Ian begin by tracing the products of powerful political-economic elites – Hungary's oligarchs – whose companies dominate everything from dairy to wine. But the question they pursue is bigger: how did la...

In Episode 3 of Fields of Power, we head out onto Hungary's great plains in search of people living through the country's land battles. What we find is a landscape marked not just by farmers without land, but by fear. Episode 3 : Fear and Loathing in Hungary We meet István, a shepherd in his seventies whose life was upended when his grazing land was handed to a politically connected newcomer – set...

What looks like a dispute over farmland turns out to be something much larger. Episode 1 of Fields of Power begins with the story of Kishantos , an organic farm south of Budapest and opens into a wider investigation of land grabbing, power, and the rise of authoritarian politics in Hungary. Episode 1 : Farms & Fortune Fields of Power begins at Kishantos, a once-celebrated organic demonstration far...