Food Security in a Globalised Economy

EEA an agency of EU has released a report about how Climate will affect agriculture in Europe. In the article about the report it states “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[my highlighting]”, this resilience to both climate and disease is what concerns me in this topic. What can we do to make us more resilient to possible “bad” effects. As I noted above even at a household level what are some steps we can take to make us more resilient, more able to cope with adverse effects.

To read the article and possibly view the video see:

https://www.euronews.com/2019/09/18/eu-warns-climate-change-could-wipe-out-crop-production-in-europe

To read the report see:

To download it:

https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/cc-adaptation-agriculture/at_download/file

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