By Kristian Borch, 2009.
Technical University of Denmark

Co-funded by:
The European Commission, Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development

"Are we approaching the beginning of the end of European agriculture? Or are we moving to a post-production era where alternatives to industrial farming are increasingly financially attractive?"

How can EU's Common Agricultural Policy be proactive to climate change and alternative outcomes of WTO negotiations?

How can the markets respond to increased demands on food safety and environmental sustainability, and the emergence of new technologies? Putting these questions and others into perspective is the focus of the EU project AG2020. Using novel foresight methods, including policy scenarios and "images of the future", AG2020 has integrates 13 international partners in order to evaluate how the Common Agricultural Policy could look like and how EU can get to favourable outcomes.

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