How contradictory EU policies led to the development of a pest: the story of oilseed rape and the cabbage stem flea beetle

Patricia Ortega‐Ramos, Samantha M. Cook, Alice L. Mauchline
2022 GCB Bioenergy  
Society currently faces a whole raft of global challenges to future, sustainable development (United Nations, 2021). Three key challenges include mitigating and reversing climate change, halting declines in biodiversity, and producing healthy and nutritious food for the growing world population. These challenges are interlinked and the ways in which society must respond are complex and wide ranging (EEA, 2020; Liu et al., 2015) . As the drivers of these global problems are better understood,
more » ... EU has designed a range of policies to try to address them: 1. In response to the problems of climate change and global warming, there is a need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (Hansen et al., 2013; Peters et al., 2013) .
doi:10.1111/gcbb.12922 fatcat:33jsguyth5cl3nfc3beqncxx4m