![]() So, turn up your sleeves and be ready to grow food, gather the harvest, breed animals and save the farm. A sustainable food system is also crucial for the future of farmers.The plot is not too unusual: the bad Global Mart threatens your little poor farm and you should do all your best to face the enemy and don’t let the monopolist destroy your family business. We propose concrete measures to bring our food system back within planetary boundaries by stimulating local food production and by moving away from intensive livestock farming and crop monocultures with high pesticide use. Ensuring the availability of food at reasonable prices must continue to be a priority.”Īnja Hazekamp (The Left, NL), rapporteur for the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, said: “Current EU policies are driving environmentally harmful farming models and paving the way for imports of unsustainable products. Our farmers are already doing a great job, so when we rightly ask them to further reduce their use of pesticides, fertilisers and antibiotics, we need to support them so production does not just move outside the EU. MEPs emphasises the need for scientific ex-ante impact assessments of any such proposals (AM1) and during the plenary debate many regretted the late publication by the Commission of the Joint research Centre’s report on the impact of Farm to Fork.įollowing the vote, Herbert Dorfmann (EPP, IT), rapporteur for the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, said: “Responsibility for a more sustainable agriculture must be a joint effort by famers and consumers. The Commission is planning a number of legislative proposals under the Farm to Fork Strategy. The vote took place on Tuesday with results announced on Wednesday. The resolution was adopted with 452 votes in favour, 170 against and 76 abstentions. Need for initiatives - promotion, public procurement and fiscal - to stimulate demand.EU’s organic land should be increased by 2030.Non-EU animal products should be allowed only if their standards are EU-aligned.Gradual end to the use of cages in EU animal farming.Current EU legislation must be evaluated to see if changes are needed.Need for common, science-based animal welfare indicators for stronger pan-EU harmonisation.Natural carbon sinks must be restored and enhanced. ![]()
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