your agriculture. what is the challenge? what can policy do? what can you do?
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Your Agriculture
What is the challenge?What is the challenge?
What can policy do?What can policy do?
What can you do?What can you do?
What is the challenge?What is the challenge?
What can policy do?What can policy do?
What can you do?What can you do?
What do What do we expect we expect
from from farmers?farmers?
• Produce enough food of good Produce enough food of good quality and at reasonable pricesquality and at reasonable prices
• Produce energy and other Produce energy and other productsproducts
What is the challenge?
• Take care of our environmentTake care of our environment
What do What do we expect we expect
from from farmers?farmers?
What is the challenge?
What is the challenge?
• Help maintain a Help maintain a lively countrysidelively countryside
What do we expect from What do we expect from farmers?farmers?
What is the challenge?
What is the challenge?
But they face major But they face major challenges…challenges…
• Produce:Produce: for for a growing global populationin a changing world
•Produce Produce better:better: in a in a sustainable sustainable wayway
•Produce Produce with less: with less: less water, less water, less energyless energy
What is the challenge?
What is the challenge?What is the challenge?
What can policy do?What can policy do?
What can you do?What can you do?
A policy to support A policy to support farmersfarmers
What can policy do?
What can policy do?
The EU supports The EU supports farmers with public with public money as they…money as they…
• ……produce safe food produce safe food and other and other essential essential products to high products to high standards standards
• ……care for the care for the natural environmentnatural environment
• … … help keeping the help keeping the countryside countryside alivealive
What can policy do?
What can policy do?
…but also as they have to face new challenges
• Combating and Combating and adapting to climate adapting to climate change change
• Food securityFood security• Safeguarding Safeguarding
biodiversitybiodiversity• Safeguarding water Safeguarding water
resourcesresources
What can policy do?
What can policy do?
What can policy do?
↓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
↓Water availability
↑Risk drought, heat spells
↑Soil erosion risk
↓ Optimal crop areas
↓Animal health, welfare
↑Flood risk
↑Hotter and drier summers
↑Risk crop pests, diseases
↑Crop, forage yields
Climate ChangeClimate Change
A policy to A policy to
improve the improve the
environmentenvironment
What can policy do?
• Rural development Rural development programs in particularprograms in particularAgri-environmental & Agri-environmental & Afforestation schemesAfforestation schemes
• Natura 2000Natura 2000• Greening proposalsGreening proposals
What can policy do?
What can policy do?
A policy to A policy to support the support the
wider wider development of development of our countrysideour countryside
What can policy do?
Concentration of production Concentration of production
in most favourable areasin most favourable areas
What if we withdraw public What if we withdraw public support?support?
What can policy do?
What if we withdraw public What if we withdraw public support?support?
Land abandonmentLand abandonment
What can policy do?
What is the challenge?What is the challenge?
What can policy do?What can policy do?
What can you do?What can you do?
Food waste Food waste creates creates extra extra
greenhouse greenhouse gas gas
emissionsemissions
=What can you do?
It’s up to us It’s up to us to reduce to reduce
food wastefood waste
What can you do?
It’s up to us to make our good choices
ORIGIN
What can you do?
It’s up to us to make our good choices
What can you do?
Conclusion
Agriculture meets several Agriculture meets several essential needs of our societyessential needs of our society
EU has a Common Agricultural EU has a Common Agricultural Policy that Policy that helps farmers to meet helps farmers to meet
these needsthese needs
Thank you for your Thank you for your attentionattention
Average farmer’s income as % of average worker’s income (all
sectors) in EU
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Relative situation of farmer income compared to non-agricultural income
0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%
100%
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
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