Climate mitigation and adaptation to climate change
Climate change and its consequences affect agriculture as a sector both directly and indirectly. For agriculture to be viable in the future, measures for climate mitigation and adaptation to climate change must go hand in hand.
Climate change poses major challenges to agriculture, forestry, fisheries and aquaculture. The predominantly adverse effects require agriculture to adapt to the changing conditions.
At the same time, agriculture in Germany also causes greenhouse gas emissions. In order to limit climate change, it must therefore make its contribution to achieving climate mitigation targets. This is the only way to ensure that high-quality food, feed and raw materials can still be produced in sufficient quantities in the future. Another aim should be to design diets and consumption in ways, which conserve resources and are environmentally compatible.
On behalf of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL), the BLE, as a project management agency, oversees numerous projects on climate mitigation and adaptation to climate change along the entire agricultural value chain, thus making a valuable contribution to achieving the climate mitigation targets and implementing the German government's adaptation measures.
- 2035 Arable Farming Strategy
- Federal Rural Development Scheme
- Federal Livestock Husbandry Strategy
- Strategy for the Future of Organic Farming
- Federal Programme for the Support of Measures Towards Enhanced Energy Efficiency in Agriculture and Horticulture
- Digitization in Agriculture
- Protein Crop Strategy
- European Research
- Research for International Sustainable Forest Management
- Research and Innovation Programme "Climate Protection in Agriculture"
- BMEL Innovation Funding
- International Research Cooperation for Global Food Secruity
- Humus Climate Measures
- Development and Demonstration Projects in the areas of animal-welfare oriented husbandry
- Development and Demonstration Projects in the Areas of Resource-efficient Plant Production Future Companies and Future Regions