Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: European Union Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780108473593
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)
Book Synopsis Innovation in EU agriculture by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: European Union Committee
Download or read book Innovation in EU agriculture written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: European Union Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural innovation must be at the heart of both Europe and the UK's policy-making, in an effort to respond to a rising global population, to the challenges of climate change and to food price volatility. Farmers cannot be expected to rise to these exceptional challenges without significant help. The EU collectively, and Member States nationally, must do more to help solve these problems. There are three main areas that the European Union Committee strongly urges the EU to consider in the current debate about the future of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and innovation policy: the European Commission must significantly increase investment in scientific research in the agricultural sector by reducing the proportion of funding devoted to the CAP and diverting it to agricultural research by the EU's Research Programme; all countries must ensure that innovative knowledge is fully communicated to the agricultural sector via better farm advice systems; the innovation-hostile environment of Brussels must be overcome.