Prime minister says photovoltaics are threatening nation’s ‘food security’, but farmers disagree

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has always insisted she is not a climate change denier and that her rightwing government is committed to greener sources of energy.

But her coalition is putting the brakes on the rollout of solar panels on farmland, which Meloni has described as a “threat to our food sovereignty” — a claim refuted by some farmers and solar energy experts.

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  • Jimmybander
    34•21 days ago

    “All that free energy is going to hurt the farmers.” Yeah. Ok.

    • Eatspancakes84
      35•21 days ago

      The saddest part is that Italian farmland is quickly losing value due to climate change (especially lack of rain). Here is a great alternative source of income for farmers that will also solve the underlying problem. Instead they choose to continue to pollute.

      • silence7OPM
        18•21 days ago

        Yeah. A fair amount of California’s utility-scale solar is built on land which was farmed for a while, but which didn’t have a sustainable water supply.