Feeling effects of four-fold human expansion in 90 years
Does the EU’s Joint Research Centre science and knowledge service know something we don’t, when they predict livestock farming will decline by 2030 in Ireland, the Netherlands, the UK, Austria, Latvia, Estonia, Sweden and Finland, while expanding in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia?
Their report entitled Trends in the EU Agricultural Land Within 2015-2030 looks at trends in acreages for livestock production, extensive livestock, mixed crop-livestock systems, arable crop, and rice production in each member state.
