The European Union has approved a Dutch government plan to buy out thousands of farmers.
It is part of a multibillion-dollar drive to cut nitrogen emissions, which are affecting biodiversity in the Netherlands.
But the plan has faced strong opposition from the agricultural sector.

Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen reports from the town of Woudenberg, the Netherlands.

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