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The Resilience Gap: Innovating for European Agriculture
European agriculture is central to food security, farmer livelihoods and Europe’s strategic autonomy. As climate disruption, rising costs and global competition intensify, farmers need timely access to effective tools, practical support and a predictable regulatory environment.
0of Europeans
trust farmers to make the right decisions about food and farming. Only 5% trust politicians.
0active substances
were lost access to by European farmers in seven years. Only one new synthetic solution reached the market in that time.
0of European
consumers believe farmers should have access to the latest innovations. 82% want decisions about farming technology grounded in scientific evidence, not political pressure.
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"Right now we’re a bit suffocated because everything takes so much effort to do… costs are too high and we’re not paid a decent profit."
“We have Morocco right next door… it doesn’t have even half the regulations we do. Ultimately it’s unfair competition.”
“In farming you don’t get rich, you survive. If we stop, we import everything and the country goes into total collapse.”
"It's a French invention [CRISPR-Cas9]… a French researcher won the Nobel Prize for it and doesn't work in France because she isn't allowed to work on it here. That's quite something."
"Last year I lost 50 hectares of maize to cutworm. Then I discovered that in America they have maize resistant to cutworm. So we not only have a block on use, we have a knowledge gap: I no longer even know what they are using abroad."
"We have done this for you. We have put your chips on a table for you. We've given you the roast dinner for you. We've given you the toast that you ate for breakfast. We gave that to you."