globeandmail.com: The hush-hush regreening of Europe
globeandmail.com: The hush-hush regreening of Europe
The hush-hush regreening of Europe - by Doug Saunders
Mr. Thibert's most recent efforts, on the rear 15 hectares of his land, are examples of Europe's most dramatic and least publicized agricultural innovation — the complete abandonment of farming. Like hundreds of thousands of farmers across Europe, he has taken money from the European Union to cut out agriculture entirely and turn his fields back into wild forest. When he gets older, he says, he might join the growing population of farmers who are ending generations of agriculture and letting the forests return.Europe's accomplishment, little understood even by its practitioners, offers valuable lessons for other countries.
Labels: Environment: climate change, EU
