As agriculture is responsible for 10% of Europe's overall greenhouse gas emissions, improving this sector is crucial to avoid a food crisis and to support our climate objectives.

In fact, the World Economic Forum reports that if farmers are supported to adopt climate-oriented farming practices, then the EU could potentially reduce its emissions coming from agriculture by 6%, while at the same time restoring soil health by 14%.

Added to this is the fact that greener farming would in turn bring back important amounts of money to farmers, anywhere from 1.9 billion to 9.3 billion euros.

"Transforming Food Systems with Farmers: A Pathway for the EU" is a new report written as part of the effort of the 100 Million Farmers' EU Carbon+ Farming Coalition, which aims to help authorities work with farmers in order to educate them with regards to the benefits of steering towards a cleaner agriculture.

The EU Carbon+ Farming Coalition surveyed farmers from seven countries in the EU, which make up the majority of the farming community on the bloc, in order to find out which are the major obstacles when it comes to scaling a climate-smart agriculture.

The identified problems were regarded as challenging farm economics, lack of awareness, uneven technology adoption and fragmentation of policies at a national level.

The EU Carbon+ Farming Coalition is determined to accelerate the solutions that are the most feasible and have the most impact among the farming community in order to improve farming across the continent.

You can read the entire "Transforming Food Systems with Farmers: A Pathway for the EU" report here.