{"id":132220,"date":"2024-07-08T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T05:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/yleinen\/we-are-the-first-impacted-by-climate-change-why-europes-rural-farmers-support-green-policies\/"},"modified":"2024-07-08T08:00:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T05:00:28","slug":"we-are-the-first-impacted-by-climate-change-why-europes-rural-farmers-support-green-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/yleinen\/we-are-the-first-impacted-by-climate-change-why-europes-rural-farmers-support-green-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We are the first impacted by climate change\u2019: Why Europe\u2019s rural farmers support green policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132220\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Europe\u2019s young farmers take aim at big agriculture as &#8220;the real problem&#8221; when it comes to climate change. \u201cFarmers are not against ecologists, in fact it\u2019s the opposite &#8211; we want really high ecological standards in Europe,\u201d Jean Matthieu Th\u00e9venot, a 30-year-old farmer in the French Basque Country, tells Euronews Green. \u201cAs farmers, we are the first impacted by climate change because of the weather. We are also the first people impacted by pesticides &#8211; farmers are dying from cancer due to this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a representative on climate issues for European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) &#8211; a confederation of unions representing small-scale farmers &#8211; he\u2019s working with governments and institutions to strengthen environmental policies while supporting producers.Here\u2019s why he believes systemic change is needed to achieve this vision.<\/p>\n<p>At the start of this year, Europe\u2019s farmers made headlines when they took to city streets in protest. But their motivation was obscured, Jean says.\u201cYou had this false opposition between ecologists from cities and rural farmers,\u201d he says. \u201cWe think that&#8217;s manipulation &#8211; this is the big industry trying to make farmers and ecologists fight together when the real problem is the industry itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rather than marching against green policies, small-scale farmers were demanding fair revenue for their produce, Jean explains. In most EU countries, the average income of farmers &#8211; including subsidies &#8211; is around half that of other citizens, according to ECVC. But Jean says agribusiness lobbyists were keen to push a different message. \u201cThey transformed these demands into \u2018No, what we need is less environmental regulation, because that&#8217;s the reason why farmers cannot make a living,\u2019\u201d says Jean.<\/p>\n<p>While he agrees that it&#8217;s impossible for Europe\u2019s farmers to compete with international exporters who are not bound by the same strict rules, he says lowering standards to the same level is not the way forward.\u201cThe solution is actually to ban imports that are not following our standards\u2026 and to set minimum prices,\u201d says Jean.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/07\/07\/we-are-the-first-impacted-by-climate-change-why-europes-rural-farmers-support-green-polici\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/07\/07\/we-are-the-first-impacted-by-climate-change-why-europes-rural-farmers-support-green-polici\">Euronews Green<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/yleinen\/we-are-the-first-impacted-by-climate-change-why-europes-rural-farmers-support-green-policies\/\">\u2018We are the first impacted by climate change\u2019: Why Europe\u2019s rural farmers support green policies<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1],"tags":[575,274,2358,970,655],"class_list":["post-132220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-yleinen","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-eu","tag-farmer","tag-green","tag-yleinen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}