TITLE IVEIP FOR AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY AND SUSTAINABILITY
F3Article 55Aims
1
The EIP for agricultural productivity and sustainability shall:
a
promote a resource efficient, economically viable, productive, competitive, low emission, climate friendly and resilient agricultural and forestry sector, working towards agro-ecological production systems and working in harmony with the essential natural resources on which farming and forestry depend;
b
help deliver a steady and sustainable supply of food, feed and biomaterials, including existing and new types;
c
improve processes to preserve the environment, adapt to climate change and mitigate it;
d
build bridges between cutting-edge research knowledge and technology and farmers, forest managers, rural communities, businesses, NGOs and advisory services.
2
The EIP for agricultural productivity and sustainability shall seek to achieve its aims by:
a
creating added value by better linking research and farming practice and encouraging the wider use of available innovation measures;
b
promoting the faster and wider transposition of innovative solutions into practice; and
c
informing the scientific community about the research needs of farming practice.