The future of EU agriculture

There is hardly a more important sector for our continent than agriculture. As we all know, it is vital to our health. It is strategic for our economy and our self-sufficiency. But we know that our farmers face many and increasing challenges, from very tough global competition to the devastating effects of climate change. As we know, Europe is the fastest warming continent. We know and experience all the extreme manifestations of the weather, which are becoming more and more frequent, whether it is heat and drought or floods, hail, heavy rains. But we also observe an increasing amount of depleted and polluted soils. And these soils are less fertile and less resistant to floods, and their capacity to retain water, but also carbon, is reduced. We know that in some parts of Europe the availability of water is already a serious problem. (More on ec.europa.eu)