The A412 autoroute project in Haute-Savoie, France, is displacing farmers and threatening the production of reblochon cheese, a protected product known as AOP (Appellation d'Origine Protégée), which guarantees its origin and quality. The 16.5-kilometer highway, being built between Machilly and Thonon-les-Bains by Amedea, a subsidiary of Eiffage, is expected to affect around 33 farms, including 27 dairy farms. Jérôme Dethes of the Confédération paysanne de Haute-Savoie noted that the project will expropriate 70 hectares of agricultural land, 50 of which lie within the reblochon de Savoie AOP zone. This would result in the loss of over 100,000 reblochon cheeses annually, a significant blow to the cheese industry and the 120 farms that produce the cheese within the AOP zone. Édouard Roch, a 65-year-old dairy farmer in Perrignier, has seen his family's farm encircled by the new highway. His family has owned the land for seven generations, but now it is surrounded by the autoroute, including an interchange, water retention basins, and a carpool parking lot. The closure of a nearby railway crossing would force him to take long detours to access grazing areas for his cattle. His son, Gaëtan, expressed concern about the farm's future, noting the difficulty of finding equivalent agricultural land and the pending compensation from Amedea, which remains to be determined by a judge. Anne Granget, a horse breeder in Lully, has witnessed the rapid destruction of her land. The autoroute is set to pass through her 6-hectare property, taking 4 hectares. She described the devastation caused by the felling of trees, which has left parts of her land inaccessible and her equipment stranded. Guy Clairens, a neighbor who farms 30 hectares, noted that the project would cost him 10% of his annual production, with no compensation land offered. Amedea has proposed acquiring agricultural land at 1.70 euros per square meter, a rate critics argue is too low. The company has also established a 3.5 million euro compensation fund over seven years, supported by the Haute-Savoie Department with 1.5 million euros. However, farmers like Édouard Roch question the practicality of such compensation, emphasizing the long-term impact the project will have on their livelihoods.