Vágyvezérelt gondolkodás vagy bizonyíték-alapú tervezés? Vélemények, viták az európai

The debate in the European Union about whether economic (economic) or nature and environmental (ecological) aspects should be given priority in the development of the agricultural economy and in agricultural policy regulation has been going on for decades. In its policy-setting study published in April 2022, the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Academies clearly calls for the development of a food production system that prioritizes ecological aspects deemed appropriate. However, our analyses confirm that in a period of climate change, global demand growth for food, which necessarily increases prices, and uncertainty in international food supply chains due to natural (e.g. epidemics) or human (e.g. wars) factors, it is not justified to strive to reduce the utilization of existing production opportunities during the transition to a bioeconomy. Instead of proposals based on fashionable slogans, often based on assumptions or preconceptions, there is a need to develop a responsible, long-term strategy based on evidence. Reasonable soil energy management, the appropriate integration of crop production and animal husbandry, the application of agricultural cybernetics and precision farming, the use of modern biotechnology based on gene editing, and the development of optimal farm sizes in both economic and ecological terms simultaneously ensure the development of a sustainable development path in European agricultural production that satisfies both natural, economic and social aspects.