Supporting a shift towards more environmentally sound farming practices by greening the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is essential to improving the environmental performance and the social and economic resilience of all European agriculture.

The event aims to deliver arguments on the benefits of crop rotation and leguminous plant cultivation, in terms of environmental protection, and their contribution, if applied in the right way, to long term profitability at farm level. It will also look at regimes which advise and monitor the implementation of such systems and practices.

The conference will provide European policymakers, stakeholders from the food and farming sector, and representatives of civil society with the opportunity to explore the effectiveness of support for crop rotation and leguminous plant cultivation as a greening measure under the reform of direct payments.


PRESENTATIONS

Crop Rotation and Legume Cultivation: An overview
Christine Watson, Scottish Agricultural College, UK

Impact of leguminous crop cultivation for animal feed at farm level
Anouk Cormont, Alterra/Wageningen UR

Sustainable cropping systems and practices in North-Rhine Westphalia
Christoph Dahlmann, ABL-NRW