Traduction de «Act to preserve agricultural land » (Anglais → Français) :

(e) Increasing efforts at national level to reduce soil erosion and increase soil organic matter – inter alia by preserving and expanding tried and tested agrienvironmental programmes in the rural development of the CAP –, to remediate contaminated sites and to enhance the integration of land use aspects into coordinated decision-making involving all relevant levels of government, supported by the adoption of targets on soil and on land as a resource, and land planning objectives; increasing efforts at national level to reduce the area of land ...[+++] used and to preserve agricultural land areas for the production of food, feed and renewable raw materials.

In order to tackle the serious problem of soil sealing, Member States should be required to take steps to reduce the area of land used and to preserve agricultural land areas for the production of food, feed and renewable raw materials.

F. whereas the main problem remains of how populations in different parts of the world will be able to feed themselves, as the cultivable land area declines due to inappropriate land use, including poor agricultural practices, a problem which has been exacerbated by climate change, and whereas opportunities to increase the area under cultivation are extremely limited, given that in many parts of the world it is thought to be quite unrealistic to bring new agricultural land into ...[+++] use, inter alia out of a concern to preserve biodiversity;

2. In cases in which the land is transferred during the calendar year concerned or the years concerned, paragraph 1 shall also apply where the non-compliance in question is the result of an act or omission directly attributable to the person to whom or from whom the agricultural land was transferred.

18. Considers that the future of agriculture also depends on conservation and restoration of soil fertility; notes that the use of quality compost in farming can contribute to preserving land productivity, increasing water retention and carbon storage capacity and reducing the use of synthetic fertilisers; stresses the role of Member States in ensuring the use of quality compost on agricultural land;

10. Considers that the future of agriculture also depends on conservation and restoration of soil fertility; notes that the use of quality compost in farming can contribute to preserving land productivity, increasing water retention, carbon storage capacity and reducing the use of synthetic fertilisers; stresses the role of Member States in ensuring the use of quality compost on agricultural land;