The possible effects on plant health of the new EU legislation on plant protection products

• Autores: Claudia Michel
• Localización: Phytoma España: La revista profesional de sanidad vegetal, ISSN 1131-8988, Nº 212, 2009 (Ejemplar dedicado a: 31as Jornadas de productos fitosanitarios), págs. 18-19
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Today, agriculture and crop production are facing key challenges. With a growing world population agriculture is under pressure to meet an increasing demand for high quality food and feed. At the same time, the expansion of crops grown for bio-energy is diverting agricultural land away from food production.

    Likewise, one needs to consider that the globally available agricultural land is limited in scale and the most productive land is already being farmed. The prospect of expanding agricultural acreage is rather limited and it would also conflict with the objectives of nature preservation and environmental protection.

    Moreover, due to the effects of climate change the risk of crop failure caused by unfavourable climate conditions may increase and yield losses will become less predictable.

    In light of the above, and in view of the increasing numbers of people going hungry worldwide and the predicted growing population of up to 8.3 billion people by 2030 , all efforts must be made to increase productivity on limited land by sustainable means and ensuring adequate standards of living for farmers.