your agriculture. what is the challenge? what can policy do? what can you do?

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

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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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