Transcript YOUR AGRICULTURE

Your Agriculture
What is the challenge?
What can policy do?
What can you do?
What is the challenge?
What can policy do?
What can you do?
What do
we expect
from
farmers?
• Produce enough food of good
quality and at reasonable prices
• Produce energy and other products
What is the challenge?
What do
we expect
from
farmers?
• Take care of our environment
What is the challenge?
What is the challenge?
What do we expect from
farmers?
• Help maintain a
lively countryside
What is the challenge?
What is the challenge?
But they face major
challenges…
• Produce: for a
growing global
population
in a changing
world
•Produce
better: in a
sustainable
way
What is the challenge?
•Produce
with less:
less water,
less energy
What is the challenge?
What can policy do?
What can you do?
A policy to support
farmers
What can policy do?
What can policy do?
The EU supports farmers with public
money as they…
• …produce safe food
and other
essential
products to high
standards
• …care for the
natural environment
• … help keeping the
countryside alive
What can policy do?
What can policy do?
…but also as they have to
face new challenges
• Combating and
adapting to climate
change
• Food security
• Safeguarding
biodiversity
• Safeguarding water
resources
What can policy do?
What can policy do?
↓Animal health, welfare
↑Flood risk
↑Hotter and drier
Climate Change
summers
↑Risk crop pests,
diseases
↑Crop, forage yields
↓Water availability
↑Risk drought,
heat spells
↑Soil erosion risk
↓ Optimal crop areas
↓Summer rainfall
↑Winter storms,
floods
↑Length growing
season, yields
↑Suitable farmland
↑Pests,
diseases risks
↓Summer rainfall
↑Winter storms,
floods
↑Risk, drought,
water stress
↑Soil erosion risk
↑Yields,
range of crops
What can policy do?
A policy to
improve the
environment
What can policy do?
• Rural development
programs in particular
Agri-environmental &
Afforestation schemes
• Natura 2000
• Greening proposals
What can policy do?
What can policy do?
A policy to
support the wider
development of
our countryside
What can policy do?
What if we withdraw public
support?
Concentration of production
in most favourable areas
What can policy do?
What if we withdraw public
support?
Land abandonment
What can policy do?
What is the challenge?
What can policy do?
What can you do?
Food waste
creates
extra
greenhouse
gas
emissions
What can you do?
=
It’s up to us
to reduce
food waste
What can you do?
It’s up to us to make our
good choices
What can you do?
It’s up to us to make our
good choices
What can you do?
Conclusion
Agriculture meets several
essential needs of our society
EU has a Common Agricultural
Policy that helps farmers to
meet these needs
Thank you for your
attention
Average farmer’s income as %
of average worker’s income (all
sectors) in EU
Relative situation of farmer income compared to non-agricultural
income
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