Climate change is one of the \nmajor framing conditions for sustainable development of agriculture and \nfood production. This is connected to ongoing changes in and of land-use\n practices which are related to local\, regional\n and global scales\, often dubbed as 'glocal' situations. That \ncharacterisation also applies to the closely related land and waters use\n domains of forestry and fisheries.\n
Agricultural and food ethics and\n its adjacent fields need to address well known\, but aggravated 'old' \nproblems. These are\, among others\, desertification due to temperature \nincrease\, changing precipitation regimes\, unsustainable\n and/or unfair land-use and water regimes\, pressure on arable land due \nto the loss of coastal areas\, soil degradation and suburban sprawl\, and \nthe strain placed on both environment and animal welfare as a \nconsequence of a growing worldwide demand for animal\n products. Also the manifold socio-economic implications on justice and \nfairness have to be investigated from different ethical perspectives.
\nAt the same time\, however\, \nclimate change creates specific effects: There are and will be new \nirreversible changes of natural and anthropogenic systems. Mitigation \nand adaptation measures to counter or slow down climate\n change have already resulted in considerable changes in agri- and \nsilvicultural land-use. This is mainly but not only due to the \nsignificant increase in growing plants for energy supply ("biofuels"). \nAnother perspective is the purchase or long-term tenancy\n of arable land or of water rights in the countries of the global south \nby wealthy nations and by transnational enterprises. In the case of \nanimal production\, specific dilemmas arise when a narrow focus on carbon\n efficiency favours intensive production systems\n which are decoupled from many traditional agricultural considerations.
These issues are only some of \nthe many dimensions which demand reflection from an agricultural and \nfood ethics perspective and thus examination by the community of \nscholars involved in EurSafe. The 10th EurSafe Congress will address the topic of climate change and \nsustainable development under four main perspectives: (1) food \nproduction\, (2) preservation of natural resources\, (3) lifestyles (4) \ngeneral philosophical and historical issues of climate change\,\n sustainable development and food ethics. There are overlaps\, so \nsessions within the programme will examine different foci providing a \nstimulating and challenging array of contributions to the congress.
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