{"id":126684,"date":"2025-09-02T07:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T07:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/126684\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T07:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T07:26:07","slug":"resilience-sufficiency-efficiency-balancing-the-challenges-facing-modern-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/126684\/","title":{"rendered":"Resilience, sufficiency, efficiency: Balancing the challenges facing modern agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s no shortage of opinions when it comes to the future of agriculture. Across Europe and beyond, the debate is often framed as a clash of philosophies: on one side, the chemical-intensive, efficiency-maximising model of conventional farming; on the other, the organic, regenerative, agroecological movements fighting to restore balance and sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the latest news and policy debates on sustainable agriculture, biomedicine, and other \u2018disruptive\u2019 innovations. Subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Resilience comes first. Not just climate resilience, but social, inspirational and economic resilience too. Can this farm survive the next flood, heatwave, or price shock? Can the farmer earn a dignified income? Can the next generation imagine themselves thriving in this profession?<\/p>\n<p>Next, sufficiency. Are we producing enough, without over-extracting from people or planet? Are we staying within planetary boundaries while meeting social expectations, such as fair wages and clean water? Do we respect local cultures and values?<\/p>\n<p>Only once these two are secured should we talk about\u00a0efficiency: how we deliver what\u2019s needed with precision, innovation, and as little waste as possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climate-kic.org\/opinion\/rethinking-the-future-of-farming-start-with-resilience-not-ideology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">This is an excerpt. Read the original post here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s no shortage of opinions when it comes to the future of agriculture. Across Europe and beyond, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[200,79],"class_list":["post-126684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-genetics","tag-genetics","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}