we do produce more food per capita than ever before, which is an incredible achievement. The challenge today is making sure that we can get it to people. And the challenge in the future will be making sure we can always produce that food.

The role of an agriculturist in Europe today

• Produce food for the population.


• Care for the countryside (soil, water, landscapes).


• Follow environmental and safety rules .


• Keep rural communities alive .

What makes Europe different

• Many agriculturists are still family farmers .


• Farming is strongly shaped by government policy (especially EU subsidies).


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Rice and wheat productivity went from one (metric) tonne per hectare to four, five, even six times that. In the case of millet, we’re still talking about going from a tonne to maybe two.

The second is that after the forma -tion of the World Trade Organization in 1995, international trade in food became very prevalent. In many of the big population centers in Africa, it’s often cheaper to import food from other countries than it is to grow domestically. The terms of trade have made it very hard to create a competitive supply system... See more

Where food begins was the slogan of the campaign World Soil Day 2022