On Legal Protection Of The Right Of Farmers To Know On Environment

Environment right to information is an important part of environmental rights, and is an importantprerequisite for Public to participate in environmental protection. Current environmental problems inrural areas are more severe with each passing day, it is very important for us to protect the right offarmers’ to know on environment effectively. At present, There are the following problems mainly toprotect the right of farmers’ to know on environment: System about the protection of the right offarmers’ to know on environment is not standardized, it is not fully for the implementation of systemabout the protection of the right of farmers’ to know on environment, it is not deeply for public involvedin the protection of the Right of Farmers’ to Know on Environment.It shows that, by contrast, the current situation of protection of urban environment right to know tothat of rural, it is “Top-down” for the protection of urban environment right to know, the public areplaying an increasingly important role; On the contrary, it is “Down-top” for the protection of ruralenvironment right to know, The government still plays a major role. The reason for rendering differenttrends between rural and urban in the protection of environment right to know is that Imbalance ofeconomic development which leads to the different choices and measures for the people. The mostdriving force for environmental protection is the owner of environmental Rights, however, it Must belong-term and difficult for its generation of farmers’ awareness of their rights and participation, So it isnecessary for us to protect rural environment and the right of farmers’ to know on environment to exertthe government’s leading role for the moment.It shows that, by contrast, the current situation of the protection of the right of farmers’ to know onenvironment of South Korea and China, The following points that we learn from the Korean experienceabout the protection of the right of farmers’ to know on environment: the development of economyshould spur the farmers’ awareness of their rights and participation, which consists of that the culture offarmers’ awareness of their rights and participation, the culture and support of non-governmentalorganizations in rural areas and the rest; The power mode of rural environmental protection hastransferred successfully,“Government-led” gave way to “Farmer-led” on the protection of ruralenvironment; Led the concept of standard into agricultural production, which provided a new path forthe protection of the right of farmers’ to know on environment.This article aims to protecting the right of farmers’ to know on environment by designing a “Government-led” system about the protection of the right of farmers’ to know on environment. Thesystem has the following three parts: Reposition the relationship between the government andenterprises by expand the government’s environmental responsibility, and government as a major forceto oversight enterprises, that government administrative rights restrict the operating rights and othereconomic interests of enterprises; The farmers informed environmental information effectively byimproving the environmental information disclosure system in rural areas, including that establishingtwo-way environmental information disclosure system among government, enterprises and farmers,expanding and improving the range of environmental information disclosure, determining the way ofthe environmental information disclosure for farmers; To ensure the effective participation of thefarmers to the protection the right of farmers’ to know on environment by improving the publicparticipation system of rural environmental protection, including that establishing a training system ofthe farmers’ awareness of their rights and participation, sounding the interest demands expression andmediation mechanism about environmental rights and interests of farmers, improving the legalprotection mechanism of public participation about the right of farmers’ to know on environment andthe rest.