The EU’s farm to fork strategy: missing links for transformation

The EU’s farm to fork strategy: missing links for transformation

The Farm-to-Fork strategy, launched in May 2020, is the first attempt at a European-wide approach to food systems of this scale. The strategy sets ambitious targets and aims to create a ‘fair, healthy, and environmentally friendly food system’. Yet, within the bounds of its own regulatory and legisl...

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Main Author: Sinead Mowlds
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Research and Innovation Centre Pro-Akademia 2020-09-01
Series:Acta Innovations
Subjects:
food systems
food security
green deal
european union
nutrition
agriculture
Online Access:http://www.proakademia.eu/en/acta-innovations/find-issueskw/all-articles2020-36/the-eus-farm-to-fork-strategy-missing-links-for-transformation/
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spelling doaj-944a112941f04f5d903fbd241908b27a2021-05-19T12:10:48ZengResearch and Innovation Centre Pro-AkademiaActa Innovations2300-55992020-09-01361730https://doi.org/10.32933/ActaInnovations.36.2The EU’s farm to fork strategy: missing links for transformationSinead Mowlds0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5473-7783Cambridge Central Asia Forum, Jesus CollegeThe Farm-to-Fork strategy, launched in May 2020, is the first attempt at a European-wide approach to food systems of this scale. The strategy sets ambitious targets and aims to create a ‘fair, healthy, and environmentally friendly food system’. Yet, within the bounds of its own regulatory and legislative context (including the Green Deal, the Circular Economy Action Plan and the new Biodiversity Strategy 2030), the strategy falls short of recognising key links in and between the food system. This review posits that the strategy and its targets do not adequately consider the importance of transforming agricultural practices for environmental outcomes; of agricultural practices for nutrition outcomes; nor the links between how we value nutrition along the supply chain, from farm to fork.http://www.proakademia.eu/en/acta-innovations/find-issueskw/all-articles2020-36/the-eus-farm-to-fork-strategy-missing-links-for-transformation/food systemsfood securitygreen dealeuropean unionnutritionagriculture
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food systems
food security
green deal
european union
nutrition
agriculture
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title The EU’s farm to fork strategy: missing links for transformation
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title_full The EU’s farm to fork strategy: missing links for transformation
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description The Farm-to-Fork strategy, launched in May 2020, is the first attempt at a European-wide approach to food systems of this scale. The strategy sets ambitious targets and aims to create a ‘fair, healthy, and environmentally friendly food system’. Yet, within the bounds of its own regulatory and legislative context (including the Green Deal, the Circular Economy Action Plan and the new Biodiversity Strategy 2030), the strategy falls short of recognising key links in and between the food system. This review posits that the strategy and its targets do not adequately consider the importance of transforming agricultural practices for environmental outcomes; of agricultural practices for nutrition outcomes; nor the links between how we value nutrition along the supply chain, from farm to fork.
topic food systems
food security
green deal
european union
nutrition
agriculture
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