Europeans worried about food and water supplies

The EU Commission’s Joint Research Center sounded the alarm earlier this year over how prolonged drought events have affected Europe for more than two years already and northern Africa for as many as six, which is “causing water shortages and hampering vegetation growth.”

Spain’s northeast Catalonia region is currently suffering its worst drought on record.

According to a survey by Statista’s Consumer Insights, as many as one in four respondents in France said that food and water security was one of the biggest challenges their country faced in 2023.


 

 

The proportion was similarly high in the UK (24 percent), Spain (24 percent) and Italy (23 percent).


In all four polled countries supply security has become a more widespread concern with each passing year


Comments

4 comments

  1. Food and water were precious until we discovered fossil fuels. Food and water will be precious without fossil fuels. The carrying capacity of Europe without fossil fuels is not a quarter of the current population.

  2. We’ve had the wettest autumn and winter in decades, every bit of farmland is saturated with or still under water, and we think a water shortage is going to be the main problem ?

  3. Wales is not part of Europe so this does not apply (by) here

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