Protect European green agricultural policies for future food security

Manuel Morales (1, 2) , Mario Díaz (3) , David Giralt (4) , Francesc Sardà-Palomera (2) , Juan Traba (1, 2) , François Mougeot (5) , David Serrano (6) , Santi Mañosa (7, 8) , Sabrina Gaba (9) , Francisco Moreira (10) , Tomas Pärt (11) , Elena Concepción (2, 3) , Rocío Tarjuelo (12) , Beatriz Arroyo (5) , Gerard Bota (2)

1 UAM - Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
2 Departamento de Ecología & Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Cambio Global (CIBC)
3 MNCN - Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales [Madrid]
4 CTFC - Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia [Solsona, Spain]
5 IREC - Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos
6 EBD - Estación Biológica de Doñana
7 Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciencies Ambientals, Facultat de Biologia
8 Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio)
9 CEBC - Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé - UMR 7372
10 Sch Agron, CIBIO InBIO
11 Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
12 Sustainable Forest Management Research Institute (iuFOR) [Valladolid, Spain]

European green agricultural policies have been relaxed to allow cultivation of fallow land to produce animal feed and meet shortfalls in exports from Ukraine and Russia. However, conversion of semi-natural habitats will disproportionately impact long term biodiversity and food security.

Domaines: Sciences de l'environnement

Manuel Morales, Mario Díaz, David Giralt, Francesc Sardà-Palomera, Juan Traba, et al.. Protect European green agricultural policies for future food security. Communications Earth & Environment, 2022, 3 (1), pp.1-3. ⟨10.1038/s43247-022-00550-2⟩. ⟨hal-03830719⟩