self-sufficient in food production

self-sufficiency in food [ dependency on food aid | self-sufficiency in agricultural produce ]

food self-sufficiency | self-sufficiency in food

food manufacturing planner | food production planning expert | food production planner | food production planning specialist

Regional Seminar on Socio-Cultural Factors in Rural Development and Self-Sufficiency in Food Production

pasta production operator | pasta manufacturer | pasta operator

food production manager

food self-sufficiency

food production

Most of the national soil survey organisations in Europe were established almost 50 years ago in response to the need to ensure food self-sufficiency.

Actions designed to help them acquire a certain self-sufficiency (particularly food security) may be necessary.

At the time, the recently introduced Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) had as one of its main objective the self-sufficiency of the continent for its food production by encouraging agricultural production with remunerative and stable prices for farmers.

Emphasises that the production of biofuels should not interfere with food production or compromise food security; believes, however, that balanced policies to promote increased European yields in feedstock crops such as wheat, maize, sugar beet and sunflowers could include provision for biofuel production, taking account of ILUC, in a way which could provide Europe’s farmers with a secure income stream, attract investment and jobs into rural areas, help address Europe’s chronic shortage of (GM-free) high-protein animal feed, make Europe less dependent on fossil fuel imports; believes that in cases of market oversupply of the agricultur ...[+++]al products referred to, the production of biofuels and bioethanol would represent a temporary outlet which would maintain sustainable purchase prices, safeguard farmers’ incomes during crises, and serve as a market stability mechanism; stresses the need to encourage the integration of uncultivated arable land which is not being used to produce food into the production of bioenergy, with a view to meeting national and European renewable energy objectives.