Jacob After (People 2013, by Ruben Hollinger) - Swiss Press Award

Bieler Tagblatt

Ruben Hollinger

Jakob Etter, BDP member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Bern, is advocating for farmers who fear the loss of arable land. Due to the revised Water Protection Act, heavily engineered waterways, as well as streams used as irrigation canals for agriculture, must be renaturalized, and their riparian zones expanded at the expense of agricultural land. Photograph taken on July 27, 2012, at Grosses Moos in Treiten.