The Netherlands weighs up its future amid farmer protests and dying ecosystems

When the Dutch government announced plans to buy out farms close to nature reserves and cut the country’s livestock herd by as much as one-third, farmers revolted, staging massive demonstrations and destabilizing politics in the Netherlands.
With the highest density of livestock in Europe, the Netherlands has been in the throes of a years-long crisis over nitrogen emissions from manure, which ecologists say are destroying the country’s ecosystems.
The country's "nitrogen crisis" has polarized the country, raising difficult questions over how to reform unsustainable food systems and offering a preview of what’s to come for other countries as well.

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