The European Green Deal sets out how to make Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. It maps a new, sustainable and inclusive growth strategy to boost the economy, improve people’s health and quality of life, care for nature, and leave no one behind.
From Farm to Fork Strategy
The Farm to Fork Strategy is at the heart of the Green Deal, aiming to make food systems fair, healthy, and environmentally friendly. It addresses comprehensively the challenges of sustainable food systems and recognizes the inextricable links between healthy people, healthy societies, and a healthy planet.
The strategy is also central to the Commission’s agenda to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). All citizens and operators across value chains, in the EU and elsewhere, should benefit from a just transition, especially
in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic downturn.
A shift to a sustainable food system can bring environmental, health, and social benefits, offer economic gains and ensure that the recovery from the crisis puts us onto a sustainable path.
Ensuring a sustainable livelihood for primary producers, who still lag in terms of income, is essential for the success of the recovery and the transition.
EU legislation, based on the European Green Deal, has set as a general goal a new development strategy for the EU, with the aim of transforming it into a climate-neutral, equitable and prosperous society, which will have a modern, efficient use of resources and a competitive economy. In particular, through the Farm-to-Fork strategy, the Union seeks to ensure adequate, economical and nutritious
food, to ensure sustainable food production by substantially reducing the use of
pesticides, antimicrobials and fertilizers, and to promote food consumption and healthy eating.
The proposing organisations, consistently following the priorities set regarding sustainability, are fully complied with the content and the spirit of EU legislation.
The rationalization of production through the management of inputs-outputs, leads
to addressing the negative consequences of over-irrigation (waste of water and energy), increased greenhouse gas emissions, improper use of fertilization and increased production costs.
Direct consequence of these practices is the reduction of the environmental footprint
with the simultaneous production of high nutritional value products, which comply
with national and European standards.
