BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, Nov. 3, 2021 – European Union Commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski and United States Secretary of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack this day issued the next assertion on a newly created transatlantic collaboration platform on agriculture designed to protect on the realm challenges of sustainability and native climate exchange.
“International collaboration to confront native climate exchange and foster sustainability is paramount to mitigating the harsh and no longer easy future that awaits us as a world society. Local climate exchange is already affecting the livelihoods of our farmers in deep and profound ways, from hideous climate volatility, to severe drought, to flooding, to wildfires and diverse catastrophic events that threaten our cities, cities and communities. We must upward thrust to the reveal.
“This day we birth a new chapter in EU-U.S. collaboration with a new platform for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the EU Directorate Standard for Agriculture and Rural Pattern to alternate knowledge and recordsdata, and to promote mutual working out and believe, as we work collectively to address world challenges and carry out unique desires.
“We are reaffirming our mutual commitment to sustainable and native climate-neat agricultural manufacturing, recognizing that we’re both engaged in a pair of, effective ways to carry out mutually desired outcomes.
“We imagine that, science and innovation will result in a more sustainable agriculture. We must work collectively to disclose systems and solutions that are exact for agricultural producers, exact for patrons, exact for companies, exact for our communities, and exact for our planet. This involves gorgeous and originate markets at the native, regional, and international stages that bolster meals security and sustainable meals systems.
“The European Union and the US are committed globally to enhanced and sustainable manufacturing, alleviating poverty and starvation, holding our environment, and confronting native climate exchange. This transformational initiative affords a platform for us to work cooperatively in the direction of these desires.”
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