Europe’s Farmers Are Running Out of Time to Adapt to Extreme Heat
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RECIT - Assumed by sharp declines in yields this summer, farmers are calling on the state to help them financially. But, in the medium and long term, their survival depends mainly on new practices adapted to climate change.
The successive waves of intense heat and an increasingly severe drought, which affect the whole continent, have put many European farmers in a crisis "without previous, vegetable and cereal growers warning in particular about crops "catastrophes". French vegetable production has fallen "to a very significant extent" compared to previous years, French growers said, with deficits estimated at 25% for pumpkin, 35% for salad, 40% for peas, 60% for b…
Europe’s Farmers Are Running Out of Time to Adapt to Extreme Heat
London, 11 August 2026 — EBM Newsdesk Analysis —Brad Adams Europe’s farmers are being pushed towards a climate threshold that increasingly looks less like an exceptional bad summer and more like a structural threat to food production. Repeated heatwaves and prolonged drought have damaged crops across large parts of the continent this summer, draining reservoirs, reducing pasture for livestock and forcing farmers to reconsider what they grow, whe…
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