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Aug 28, 2024 | 
greeneuropeanjournal.eu | Angela Hilmi |Emile Frison |Raluca Besliu |Stefano Liberti
Declining crop yields due to climate change, economic hardship, bureaucratic hurdles – the material challenges European farmers face are well known. Yet the mental health toll of this state of uncertainty has so far remained largely overlooked. A cross-country investigation reveals the far-reaching nature of this mental health crisis and governments’ failure to address it. Tangled irrigation hoses stuck in the mud form a shapeless mass in some fields, others are strewn with stones.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
greeneuropeanjournal.eu | Francesco Bellina |Stefano Liberti |Angela Hilmi |Emile Frison
Tracing responsibility for honeybee losses in rural Ukraine points to farmers and pesticide-treated rapeseed fields. But whose practices really lie behind the short-term bid to increase crop productivity? And what do the historic uses of agrochemicals tell us about their current weaponisation? A non-event, a continuity: growing rapeseed in Ukraine.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
greeneuropeanjournal.eu | Iryna Zamuruieva |Angela Hilmi |Emile Frison |Raluca Besliu
A small agricultural revolution is underway in Sicily, where farmers are taking advantage of warming temperatures to bring new fruits to market. But will this be enough to turn the fortunes of southern Italian farming, which is increasingly grappling with droughts and other climate impacts? “When I started, no one believed in me,” says Pietro Cuccio, holding a perfectly ripe mango in his hand.
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May 7, 2024 | 
thebulletin.org | Emile Frison
When we think of climate change, the images that come to mind are predominantly of polar bears stranded on melting icebergs, plumes of smoke rising from power station chimneys—and maybe forest fires, oil rigs, or solar panels. What we almost certainly don’t think of is the burger sitting juicy on the dinner plate, the cow in the barn, or the ready-made lasagna steaming fresh from the microwave.
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May 3, 2024 | 
greeneuropeanjournal.eu | Jeroen Candel |Angela Hilmi |Emile Frison |James Pearce
In India’s ongoing elections, economic and social issues are intertwined with rising temperatures and declining agricultural harvests. While Indian farmers are the worst affected, the climate path of the world’s most populous country and third-largest emitter affects us all – and there are things the EU could do to help. The world’s largest democratic exercise is currently underway, with Indian voters heading to the polls for nationwide elections.
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
bilaterals.org | Angela Hilmi |Emile Frison
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Green European Journal | 25 March 2024Farmer protests: the wrong u-turnby Angela Hilmi and Emile FrisonWhile farming and nature are inextricably bound together, political bargaining often sets the two in opposition. Recent protests across Europe and worldwide show growing frustration among farmers.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
greeneuropeanjournal.eu | Angela Hilmi |Emile Frison |Jeroen Candel |Enrico Somaglia
With farmers taking to the streets and making headlines all over Europe, national governments and EU institutions are rushing to make concessions to appease them. But are the solutions offered what farmers and agricultural workers really need? We asked Enrico Somaglia, deputy general secretary of the European Federation of Food, Agriculture, and Tourism Trade Unions (EFFAT). Green European Journal: Is there a common thread among the farmers’ protests happening across Europe?
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
greeneuropeanjournal.eu | Francesca Romana Spinelli |Filipe Henriques |Angela Hilmi |Emile Frison
Attempts to create a European public sphere since the 1990s have clashed with the media’s predominantly national focus and the democratic deficit of EU decision-making. Since then, the Europeanisation process has continued and the media landscape has changed dramatically, but the offer of democratic spaces for citizens remains limited. Is a post-national democracy within reach?
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
greeneuropeanjournal.eu | Filipe Henriques |Angela Hilmi |Emile Frison |Raluca Besliu
In spite of their long history in Europe and status as its largest ethnic minority, Roma continue to be seen as the “perpetual foreigner” and have suffered violence, marginalisation, and exclusion. A real sense of belonging for Europe’s Roma can only be built on an acknowledgement of the power relations at play. Although the Roma have been in Europe since at least the 11th century, they are often seen as the eternal migrant or “stranger” as described by German sociologist Georg Simmel.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
greeneuropeanjournal.eu | Angela Hilmi |Emile Frison |Filipe Henriques |Bianca Carrera Espriu
Humans have always moved across regions and continents. Yet how that happens today is increasingly dystopian, heavily bound within the nation-state and capitalist logic. Even as migrants endure militarised, inhumane systems and are called a threat to Europe’s “way of life”, they are also courted as indispensable for the economy. Aleksandra Savanovićinvites us to step back and, shedding the confines of preconceived ideas about future and progress, imagine together a more utopian migration.
