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Solar panels promise farmers a lifeline, but who profits?
Original: Solar panels promise farmers a lifeline. But who gets the profits?
Agrivoltaics is being promoted as a financial lifeline for struggling farmers, with solar panels on farmland offering new income alongside crops. But the trend is raising a hard question: whether the profits flow to farmers themselves or to energy developers and investors who lease their land. The debate highlights tension between agriculture and the clean energy transition.
Why now: Growing land competition between farming and renewable energy projects has put the distribution of solar profits under scrutiny.
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