EPP-conference 2008

Global Food Security

F. Fischler

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The EU Response

Food challengeEnvironmental

challenge Rural challenge

Food and Environmental Security Policy

Rural Development

Policy

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How to feed the world?

• Growing demand for safe food (+50% within 20 years)

• Increasing competition between food, feed and biomass

• Main increase in demand in developing and emerging countries

• Over 70% of world‘s Ag-production comes from temperate zones

• Additional land is limited

• Intensification is needed

The Food Challenge

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• Water scarcity

• Soil degradation

• More frequent and more intense weather anomalies

The Environmental Challenge

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• Land management of man made landscapes

• Rural society the looser of globalisation

• Out migration and aging population

The Rural Challenge

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• Global Food Security

• Environmental Security

• Rural Europe

The EU Response: New Objectives for the CAP

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• Integrated solutions to the problems of food and environmental security

• Know How intensification

• Strengthening of the food chain

• New measures to deal with market volatility

• A carbon storage scheme

• An integrated water policy

• A better international trade environment

Food and Environmental Security Policy

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Thank you for your attention!