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About the Strategy

The Farm to Fork Strategy is at the heart of the European Green Deal aiming to make food systems fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly.

Food systems cannot be resilient to crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic if they are not sustainable. We need to redesign our food systems which today account for nearly one-third of global GHG emissions, consume large amounts of natural resources, result in biodiversity loss and negative health impacts (due to both under- and over-nutrition) and do not allow fair economic returns and livelihoods for all actors, in particular for primary producers.

Putting our food systems on a sustainable path also brings new opportunities for operators in the food value chain. New technologies and scientific discoveries, combined with increasing public awareness and demand for sustainable food, will benefit all stakeholders.

The Farm to Fork Strategy aims to accelerate our transition to a sustainable food system that should:

have a neutral or positive environmental impacthelp to mitigate climate change and adapt to its impactsreverse the loss of biodiversityensure food security, nutrition and public health, making sure that everyone has access to sufficient, safe, nutritious, sustainable foodpreserve affordability of food while generating fairer economic returns, fostering competitiveness of the EU supply sector and promoting fair trade

The strategy sets out both regulatory and non-regulatory initiatives, with the common agricultural and fisheries policies as key tools to support a just transition.

A proposal for a legislative framework for sustainable food systems will be put forward to support implementation of the strategy and development of sustainable food policy. Taking stock of learning from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Commission will also develop a contingency plan for ensuring food supply and food security. The EU will support the global transition to sustainable agri-food systems through its trade policies and international cooperation instruments.

To enable and accelerate the transition to a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system, advisory services, financial instruments, but also research and innovation are instrumental as they can help resolve tensions, develop and test solutions, overcome barriers and uncover new market opportunities.

Publications

Communication - A Farm to Fork strategy for a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system (+Annex)The Farm to Fork Strategy - PublicationPress Release: Reinforcing Europe's resilience: halting biodiversity loss and building a healthy and sustainable food systemQuestions and answers on Farm to Fork StrategyFactsheet on Farm to Fork StrategyTimeline of Farm to Fork actions

Documents accompanying the Farm to Fork Strategy

Roadmap for the Fitness check of the animal welfare legislationImplementation Report on the Sustainable Use of Pesticides DirectiveAnnexReport on the REFIT evaluation of the pesticide legislationStaff working documentReport on front-of-pack nutrition labellingCommission Staff Working Document of the Evaluation of the Nutrition and Health Claims RegulationList of Appendices to the Commission Staff Working DocumentExecutive Summary of the evaluation of the Nutrition and Health Claims RegulationStaff Working Document on the link between the CAP reform and the Green Deal

Farm2Fork: Do you have the appetite for change?

European Green DealSustainable Development GoalsCommunication on the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030SAM work on sustainable food systemsFactsheet on SAM work on sustainable foodEurobarometer October 2020: Making our food fit for the future – new trends and challengesFactsheet on Farm to Fork StrategyFactsheet on The business case for biodiversityFactsheet on benefits for farmersFactsheet on the Common Agriculture Policy’s contribution to the European Green DealFarm to Fork episodes

Latest news

Progress on Farm to Fork pesticide targetsPolicy Dialogues EU – Colombia, Ecuador, Perú on sustainable agriculture and food systems 28-29 September 2022View on TwitterView on FacebookView on Instagram

Further information

The legislative framework for sustainable food systems (FSFS) aims to accelerate and facilitate the transition to sustainable food systems.

Sustainable food consumption and facilitating the shift towards healthy, sustainable diets

Reducing food waste has enormous potential for reducing the resources we use to produce the food we eat.Fighting food waste is a triple win: it saves.

The Farm to Fork Strategy aims to reduce the environmental and climate impact of primary production whilst ensuring fair economic returns for farmers...

Helping to shape the EU's path towards a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system