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The buyout scheme is voluntary for now, but it could enforce mandatory buyouts if not enough farmers accept the deal. One farmer said that although nitrogen emissions were recently reduced by 8%, there is a fear that it will never be enough to satisfy the political elites.

Farmers are under pressure to downsize or relocate their farms, or quit, over nitrogen reduction targets set by the government. Politicians are pitting the public against farmers by placing limits on new homes, infrastructure building and energy projects until farmers cut nitrogen emissions.

Colin Todhunter Disaster capitalism and crisis narratives are currently being used to manipulate popular sentiment and push through a set of unpalatable policies that would otherwise lack sufficient political support. These policies are being promoted by wealthy interests that stand to make billions of dollars from what is being proposed. They seek to gain full control …

Eva Vlaardingerbroek said that the Dutch government has plans to force 600 farmers to sell their land. She said that the government's claim of a nitrogen crisis is actually a manufactured crisis used to expropriate the land. She indicated that the land will be used to aid the housing crisis caused by mass immigration.

Colin Todhunter As oil and gas prices rise so does the price of artificial chemical fertilisers – the lynch-pin of industrial agriculture’s claims to be ‘efficient’. In the UK, the price of nitrogen fertiliser has doubled over the past year to around £330 per tonne. With oil currently at over $130 a barrel and with …

Oklahoma will execute prisoners using an experimental method never before attempted anywhere in the world: nitrogen hypoxia.
Mike Hunter, the state’s attorney general, and Joe M. Allbaugh, the director of the department of corrections, announced Oklahoma will asphyxiate prisoners by locking them in a chamber that will fill with a physiologically inert gas, such as nitrogen. Such gases are not toxic but instead deplete blood oxygen levels.

Healthy soil contains billions of tiny microorganisms that help plants to thrive and our food supply to remain abundant. A paper, published in Nature Communications, used large-scale data comparisons of soil from 78 global drylands and from 179 locations across Scotland to study diversity of soil microbiota. The researchers found that diversity is absolutely imperative for supporting ecosystems.

by Gilles Billen, Luis Lassaletta and Josette Garnier Globalisation is not only a matter of clothing and mobile phones. Long-distance worldwide shipping of food commodities has also increased tremendously over the last few decades. Lassaletta et al. (2014) estimate that one-third of all proteins (a proxy for the nutritive potential ...