Detachable Subdivision
"Rivne Professional College of
National University of Life
and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine"
As part of the week of land management disciplines, a guest lecture was held on the topic "Implementation of EU policy on the introduction of land and water footprint calculation methodologies in Ukraine". Scientific lecturer – Skrypchuk Petro Mykhailovych, Doctor of Economics, Professor of the National University of Agricultural Sciences, Head of the Regional Consulting and Educational Center for Organic Production (RCOC) in Rivne. Participants are students of specialty 193 "Geodesy and Land Management".
Petro SKRYPCHUK In his lecture, he revealed the main provisions of the introduction of land and water footprint in Ukraine, which is due to our country's desire to join the European Green DealThe main theses of the lecture are:
European Green Deal is an EU action program, at the heart of which is an ambitious plan to transition to a climate-neutral Europe by 2050.
The European Green Deal will be implemented in nine areas: (1) Climate; (2) Energy; (3) Industrial strategy for a circular economy; (4) Sustainable and smart mobility; (5) Green agricultural policy; (6) Preserving biodiversity; (7) Zero pollution; (8) Financial instruments; (9) The EU as a global leader.
The main task in the field of agriculture (includes agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture) – ensuring food security.
The activities of the agricultural sector should be aimed at using sustainable practices such as organic production, precision farming, compliance with animal welfare standards, etc.
Land footprint is an indicator used to measure the amount of land used both domestically and abroad to produce the goods and services consumed by a country/region. The EU's land footprint is estimated at 269 million hectares, which is 43% more than the agricultural land available in the EU73% of this land footprint is accounted for by the consumption of animal products, and the remainder is accounted for by vegetable oils and plant-based products.
In conclusion, students seeking education for using the ecological footprint calculator (Ecological Footprint Calculator) calculated their ecological footprint on planet Earth.
Nelya RUSINA, Petro BIDA,
teachers of land management disciplines
