“Farmers are not against ecologists, in fact it’s the opposite – we want really high ecological standards in Europe,” Jean Matthieu Thévenot, a 30-year-old farmer in the French Basque Country, tells Euronews Green. “As farmers, we are the first impacted by climate change because of the weather. We are also the first people impacted by pesticides \- farmers are dying from cancer due to this.” As a representative on climate issues for European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) – a confederation of unions representing small-scale farmers \- he’s working with governments and institutions to streng…
