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Despite months of protests by farmers and an electoral rebuke, the Dutch government has pressed ahead with an attempt to make its farming system more ecologically sustainable.
But there are deep divisions in the Netherlands over how extensive any reforms should be, and clashes over the role that new technologies should play in them.
Read pt. III from Ashoka Mukpo's reporting on the nitrogen crisis.
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https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/in-the-clash-over-dutch-farming-europes-future-arrives/
Mongabay Environmental NewsIn the clash over Dutch farming, Europe’s future arrivesThis is the third story in a three-part Mongabay miniseries on the Dutch nitrogen crisis and farmer protests of 2022: The Dutch, and European, green agenda crashes into the continent’s food systems. Read Part One and Part Two. LEEUWARDEN, Netherlands — To a din of mooing and the occasional sound of urine hitting the floor, […]