How dare the EU?
Reducing chemical pesticides & fertilizers now, when we need to squeeze the most from every crop we can harvest?
We dare. Because Europeans need healthy, affordable food now, for our children and our children’s children.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Food_EU/status/1600845561128751106
"Studies show that the global trends on climate, biodiversity, hunger, and malnutrition are all going in the wrong direction."
- Commissioner @SKyriakidesEU at the #AgriOutlook conference's session on 'Transitioning to a more sustainable food system'
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Food_EU/status/1600846310550122496
"There can be no discussion on the outlook for agriculture without a discussion on how to make our food system sustainable."
- Commissioner @SKyriakidesEU at the #AgriOutlook conference's session on 'Transitioning to a more sustainable food system'
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Food_EU/status/1600846650007756801
"Food sovereignty is key in times of global crisis, which means that we have to produce food in regional economic circles."
- Margit Fischer from Perspektive Landwirtschaft
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Food_EU/status/1600860306053697537
"Shifting towards more sustainable practices, farmers typically experience an initial income gap that society needs to bridge."
- Prof @erikmathijs
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Food_EU/status/1600860800029171720
"There is a need for more education, affordability, and youth involvement in the transition to a more sustainable food system."
- @WWFEU’s Greta Kämper
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Food_EU/status/1600861786848526337
"We’ve witnessed all too closely how climate change comes at an environmental cost, a social cost, and an economic cost. Drought-related losses alone cost the EU about 9 billion euros every year."
- Commissioner @SKyriakidesEU at the #AgriOutlook conference
#EUFarm2Fork
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Food_EU/status/1600846845739077633