The key focus in the entire EU debate on innovation and resource efficiency, aiming at combining the concepts of productivity and sustainability under the official slogan ‘achieve more from less’ should according to PAN Europe be 1) encouraging intelligent use of nature in the agricultural sector integrating the concept of sustainability and productivity and 2) encouraging increased diversification by integrating new actors into the sector to ensure new thinking of the food chain.
While PAN Europe welcomes the good intention of bridging the gap between research and agriculture, as part of the debate on innovation, we encourage some steering aiming ensuring long-term food security, and on the importance of focusing on how agricultural practices can deliver, and highlights the need to develop some solid CAP indicators, starting with measuring dependency on external chemical inputs.