Translation of "agriculture et élevage " (French → English) :

recognising the decisive role of agriculture and livestock-keeping in climate change policies by promoting smallholder agriculture and livestock farming as autonomous adaptation and mitigation strategies in the South due to their sustainable use of natural resources such as water and pasture.

E. whereas the extreme and severe drought that occurred in southern Europe has contributed to diminishing the soil humidity, thus increasing the threat of forest fires and their aggressiveness; whereas the last few years have been marked by numerous cases of drought and a growing number of forest fires in the regions of southern Europe, accentuating desertification in many regions and affecting agriculture, stockbreeding and forestry resources,

For land-based biological resources, research will focus on: soil fertility, improved crops and production systems in all their diversity, including organic farming, quality production schemes and monitoring and assessment of the impact of GMOs on the environment and humans; plant health, sustainable, competitive and multifunctional agriculture, and forestry; rural development; animal health and welfare, breeding and production; infectious diseases in animals, including epidemiological studies, zoonoses and their pathogenic mechanisms, and diseases linked to animal feedstuffs; other threats to the sustainability and security of food ...[+++] production, including climate change; safe disposal of animal waste.

13. Calls on the Commission to take account, in the legislative initiatives which will ensue from its thematic strategy, of the role played by agriculture in revitalising soil and the importance of maintaining farming activity, above all in regions facing the greatest risk of depopulation; believes that suitable soil uses in agriculture, grassland or woodland are basic factors in soil preservation;

12. Calls on the Commission to take account, in the legislative initiatives which will ensue from its thematic strategy, of the role played by agriculture in revitalising soil and the importance of maintaining farming activity, above all in regions facing the greatest risk of depopulation; suitable soil uses in agriculture, grassland or woodland are basic factors in soil preservation;

1. Calls on the Commission to take account, in the legislative initiatives which will ensue from its thematic strategy, of the role played by agriculture in revitalising soil and the importance of maintaining farming activity, above all in regions facing the greatest risk of depopulation; suitable soil uses in agriculture, grassland or woodland are basic factors in soil preservation.