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Climate change threatens future of farming in Europe

News Published 04 Sep 2019 Last modified 23 Nov 2020

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Photo: © Rayya Kartal, Sustainably Yours /EEA

Crop and livestock production is projected to decrease and may even have to be abandoned in parts of Europe’s southern and Mediterranean regions due to the increased negative impacts of climate change, according to a European Environment Agency (EEA) report published today. The study says that adapting to climate change must be made a top priority for the European Union’s agriculture sector if it is to improve resilience to extreme events like droughts, heatwaves and floods.