European farmers are key to global food security — and they need help
Europe’s farmers are grappling with two dual and daunting challenges: the pressure to deliver more sustainable and high-yielding seasons of crops, and a dwindling supply of healthy seeds with which to accomplish it. Nowhere is this more obvious than for Europe’s potato farmers, who, at the start of the 2024 planting season, warned of a shortage in the supply of potato seeds. The decline in seed-producing areas across the European Union's top five seed-producing nations shows why these shortages are becoming more common. Persistent challenges such as disease, pests, and erratic weather patterns...