Food Security and Climate Change: The Role of Sustainable Intensification, the Importance of Scale and the CAP

Sean Rickard

EuroChoices, 2015, vol. 14, issue 1, 48-53

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Food security, the depletion of the world's natural capital and climate change form a trilemma for EU agriculture. This article argues that while reducing food waste and meat consumption can make a contribution, only the widespread adoption of sustainable intensification (SI) – to achieve a step-change in natural resource productivity (NRP) growth – can deliver the necessary increase in output while reducing the industry's demands on the environment and GHG emissions. Maximising the growth of NRP depends not only on advances in plant and animal breeding but also a general transition to precision farming.

Date: 2015
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