EIT Food and the PepsiCo Foundation today announced the launch of Future Harvest, a new European program designed to support young and next-generation farmers as they build viable, resilient and future ready farming operations. EIT Food is supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union. Across Europe, the farming population is ageing rapidly. Only around 11% of farm managers are under the age of 40, according to European Commission and Eurostat data, while farmers face mounting pressures from climate change, rising input…
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