Freshwater restoration should be at the heart of how farming is managed in Europe, according to new recommendations.

Reshaping the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to support freshwater ecosystems by encouraging water-friendly farming practices is a key task, accoring to a team of researchers from the EU MERLIN project writing in a newly published policy brief. The researchers draw on cutting-edge science and fieldwork to outline a vision for water-resilient agricultural landscapes across Europe.

Our guest is one of those researchers – Josselin Rouillard from ECOLOGIC – and in this podcast we’ll hear about how the futures of European freshwaters and farming are so closely linked, and what we can do to help them flourish.