System vulnerability

Climate change is gradually leading to the emergence of new types of risk for European agriculture.

While it is urgent to move towards sustainable patterns of production and consumption, rapid transformations can have profound social, economic, political, institutional and cultural consequences.

The forest-wood sector employs over 50,000 people in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, with total revenue generated by companies in the field close to 10 billion euros, the highest of any French region (Agreste 2015 figures).

Agricultural issues are particularly affected by climate change, but also by other societal and economic changes (changing consumer demand, environmental standards, changing input costs), requiring adaptation, transition and even transformation.

The management of a health risk (whether pandemic, epizootic or epiphytic) reveals, at the level of the actors involved in these situations, a complex world made up of multiple, closely interrelated risks, whether health-related (e.g. the impact of the Covid crisis on the management of other risks) or not (loss of markets, biodiversity, organizational and political risks, etc.).