Un nuovo studio pubblicato sulla rivista Science dimostra che l'aumento della diversificazione agricola apporta contemporaneamente benefici ambientali e sociali, creando molteplici situazioni vantaggiose per tutti.
Published in Science - Agricultural simplification continues to expand at the expense of more diverse forms of agriculture. This simplification, for example, in the form of intensively managed monocultures, poses a risk to keeping the world within safe and just Earth system boundaries. Here, we estimated how agricultural diversification simultaneously affects social and environmental outcomes.
The report 'Study on the environmental impacts of achieving 25% organic land by 2030' outlines and quantifies the benefits - in terms of the environment, climate change mitigation, reduced nitrogen pollution and improved biodiversity - that would be obtained by achieving 25% organic farmland in the EU.
The olive farming is an important agricultural sector in the European Union, particularly in the southern Mediterranean coastline countries. More than 95 % of the olive production in the EU-28 is concentrated in the Member States, Spain, Italy and Greece.