The summer of 2022 has shown how farming and our food systems are already weakened by global warming. The lack of water, the hot weather and the power of solar radiation disturbed animal farm and the cultivation of cereals. These difficulties will be renewed in the coming years; The more the climate will deregulate, the more severe they will be.
With the summer of 2022, we have realized that the agricultural sector is one of the first victims of climate change and that the production conditions of our food will harden. Faced with climate change, it is essential to prepare French agriculture under penalty of seeing the spectrum of food tensions and shortages resurface.
The whole question is now how to trigger a general movement of French agriculture to deal with climate change. Whether organic, reasoned or conventional, all production methods are concerned and no one can say today that it holds the key to do this. French agriculture is simply not ready and an adaptation trajectory must be implemented.
launch a collective dynamic of engagement
Nothing relevant and effective can come from a centralized initiative that would come from above and win farmers. The extent and importance of the challenge of the agricultural transition oblige us to invent new ways of doing things to make consensus and launch a collective dynamic of engagement.
The experiences of the Citizen Citizen Convention for the Climate and the Convention on Climate Business is particularly inspiring in this regard. Apart from all partisan considerations and on the basis of scientific observations, these two devices have made it possible to make citizens and entrepreneurs of the severity of climate change become aware.
These devices have led to unpublished legislative proposals (citizens’ agreement) and business transformation plans to more sustainability that are unprecedented (business agreement). The implementation of an agreement of farmers and farmers for the climate is likely to cause awareness on the scale of the whole profession.
for the balances of human societies
It is a way to restore the unity necessary for a profession weakened by internal divisions and intestine struggles which make immobility in the face of climate change. It is also a way to produce new standards in the face of a breathless co -management governance. It is finally a means to open the agricultural profession to other players, technologies and know-how to initiate new cooperation and innovation dynamics.
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