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SUSTAINABLE
AGRICULTURE
Sustainable agriculture
Global agriculture is faced with many
challenges. It has to produce more
raw materials to satisfy the increasing
and diversifying demands of a growing
world population, it has to contribute
to economic prosperity and social wellbeing in rural areas, and it has to preserve
natural resources such as land, water and
biodiversity.
A more productive and resource efficient
agriculture mitigates the problems
associated with these challenges, because
it enables us to have more of everything
more food, more feed, more non-food
crops, more biodiversity and natural
habitats while at the same time reducing
greenhouse gas emissions.
Pesticides make an
important contribution
to sustainable productive
agriculture
AND WERE WORKING TO MAKE IT BETTER
Health
Recycling
15,500 tonnes
125,000m
of landfill
Health
16 countries are
31 countries where it
operates
Biodiversity
Benefits for biodiversity
Productive, resource efficient agriculture
is beneficial for biodiversity. It is necessary
to protect both harvests and biodiversity,
and through the INSPIA project, working
with partners, we will demonstrate that
best management practices can meet
the challenge of providing sufficient safe
and affordable food whilst preserving
our natural environment and promoting
farmland biodiversity.
38
million
hectares
12 times
BRUSSELS
X12
Biodiversity
2013
20 best management
practices
50
Water
Best management
practices can reduce
contamination of water
up to 90%.
We are helping
keep water clean
in
24
countries
Water
TOPPS-Life
TOPPS-Prowadis
was launched in 2011
The TOPPS
projects work with 22
partners, with outreach in
24 countries
Food
Our train-the-trainer
programme takes good
residue management
practices from centres of
excellence to areas where
they are most needed.
Food
Launched in
2013
5 Almeria-trained Turkish
advisors have trained
5,000
farmers,
to reach
specialists, and advisors in
just one season