Improvement of resilience in agriculture

Agricultural resilience refers to the ability of agriculture to adapt and respond to changes in the environment. Crop productivity varies from year to year depending on prevailing weather conditions (e.g. rainfall, sunlight and temperature), and the aim of ensuring agricultural resilience is to minimise any potential loss of productivity due to weather conditions. Maintaining a high level of climate resilience is particularly important as climate change and the environmental changes that will indirectly result from it will intensify in the near future.

Finland's CAP plan for the period 2023-2027 takes into account the poor state of Finnish agricultural drainage systems, the improvement of which is key to ensuring climate resilience. However, securing climate resilience in the future will require a lot of efforts from Finnish agriculture, such as preparing for rainfall, drought, wind damage and pests, and breeding and introducing more sustainable and productive species. Finland also needs to take particular account of the potential decline in the amount of carbon used as one of the indicators due to the relatively young age of fields.

Agricultural sector resilience progress indicator (I.9) on EU Comission dashboard

The indicator is a common CAP plan impact indicator I.9 as set out in regulation (EU) 2021/2115 , Annex I. It is used in all Member States.