36 organizations call for EU food policy and Vice President for Food
New IPES-Food report argues for integrated food policy for the EU.
New IPES-Food report provides concrete examples of communities breaking away from industrial agriculture.
This report argues for a Common Food Policy for the European Union: a policy setting a direction of travel for the whole food system, bringing together the various sectoral policies that affect food production, processing, distribution, and consumption, and refocusing all actions on the transition to sustainability.
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Public policies are failing to respond to the challenges in food systems. Integrated food policy making can bring a range of poorly aligned policies (agriculture, trade, environment, development, food safety…) under one roof, to refocus them on clear and consistent objectives, and to drive a transition to sustainability.
IPES-Food Panel Member Emile Frison and Christine Frison argue for a new model of agriculture for Africa. Featured in Les Echos.
This report describes seven case studies of agroecological transition to draw insights on how the lock-ins of industrial food systems can be overcome, where the key leverage points for transition are located, and how transition towards sustainable food and farming systems can be best supported.
Agroecology and the SDGs: An overview will be carried out of the latest research in Agroecology, followed by a presentation of FAO Scaling Up Agroecology Initiative.
The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) brings together a diversity of expert voices to shape policy debates on how to reform food systems around the world.
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October 14, 2019
IPES-Food, AFSA, and representatives from the governents of the Netherlands and Brazil will co-host a side event at the Committee on World Food Security 46 on "Moving Towards Integrated Food Policies: Reviewing lessons learnt from Europe, and assessing emerging opportunities in Africa and the USA."
