The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) has just adopted an opinion on “Land use for sustainable food production and ecosystem services”. Land use is also one of the priorities of the Estonian Presidency of the Council, which hopes to have conclusions adopted by EU agriculture ministers at their meeting in Brussels on 6 November.
“In the course of six years, between 2006 and 2012, some 107,000 hectares of land was taken for artificial development annually in European states,...