The EU's food system faces a wide range of challenges across different dimensions, such as significant emissions of greenhouse gases and a deterioration of the EU's nature. Furthermore, the water environment in many areas is in a poor ecological state, and the general level of animal welfare is challenged.
The existing EU policies do not meet these challenges, which means that it is necessary to change and improve the food system in order to achieve climate neutrality in 2050 and meet the biodiversity goals.
In this project, CONCITO will address the pressing challenges facing the EU's food system. The purpose is to contribute to creating a sustainable and resilient food system, for farmers as well as for the rest of society, with a particular focus on climate action and biodiversity.
In the project period 2023-2026, we will contribute to the development of important policy areas that have the potential to greatly improve the EU's food system, including the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the EU's framework for sustainable food systems (SFS) and the potential new climate regulation of agriculture and land use.
In close collaboration with other green European think tanks, we will focus on delivering evidence-based analyses, proposals and recommendations as well as white papers and reports. The project will engage with decision-makers, agricultural organizations and other trade organizations, researchers and NGOs to promote dialogue, create consensus and develop common solutions. The project will also develop a model of the EU's food system that will be able to calculate the impact of different scenarios for a sustainable food system.
The global food system must demand significantly more sustainable food, increase efficiency, and take much greater care of nature and biodiversity. Only in this way can the food system contribute positively to achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals on climate, nature, and health. This is highlighted in a new UN report, which concludes that many new initiatives and technologies are needed to achieve all the targets.
In this report, CONCITO analyses the implementation of the 2023-27 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform after its first year of implementation, using Denmark as a case study.
A comprehensive new report by the green think tank CONCITO evaluates the initial impacts of the 2023-27 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform, using Denmark as a key example. The findings highlight crucial insights into the reform's limited effectiveness in advancing environmental, climate, and biodiversity goals in its first year.
New, stricter requirements are on its way for the agricultural sector, where ambitious targets on biodiversity, climate and environment are shape up. But do farmers have the right framework conditions to meet society’s growing demands and expectations?
European agriculture must deliver unprecedented reductions of greenhouse gas emissions while also providing enough food for European citizens and the world. This calls for new and stronger measures in the EU such as emissions trading for agriculture.
A new common agricultural policy (CAP) came into force on 1 January 2023, but it only creates limited opportunities for reducing agriculture's negative impact on climate and biodiversity.
