MAP Position Paper (The Netherlands) - Climate change and environmental sustainability

The fruit sector in Greenport Gelderland in the Netherlands is confronted with the impacts of climate change. This relates to both having too much and too little precipitation, as well as extreme weather events such as hail and high winds. The variety of implications makes it more difficult to adapt because needs will be different for one year/season to another. It requires agility and timely anticipation. Climate change adaptation (CCA) is typically something that needs to be addressed together in a region and cannot be adequately addressed by individual sectors, in this case the fruit sector, by themselves. It requires active and broad stakeholder participation.