EU farm to fork strategy - Slow Food International

Carlo Petrini and Olivier de Schutter Discuss the Future of Food in Europe

7 April 2022 Alice Poiron

On March 31, Slow Food Europe and IPES-Food hosted their first in-person event in Brussels since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out: a dialogue between Carlo Petrini, president of Slow Food, and Olivier de Schutter, co-chair of IPES-Food: “COVID-19, the war in Ukraine and rising food prices: how can we transform food systems in the face of constant …

The Farm to Fork Strategy is the Future of the EU Food System

16 March 2022

Since the war broke out in Ukraine, industrial lobby groups & conservative policy-makers have instrumentalized it to try rolling back the EU Farm to Fork Strategy. The EU Food Policy Coalition, of which Slow Food is an active member, reacted in an open letter to the European Commission. Our message? The Strategy is the only …

The EU Dedicates a Conference to the Future of Animal Welfare

10 December 2021 Yael Pantzer & Alice Poiron

The ball is slowly starting to roll in the world of EU animal welfare legislation! On December 9, the EU Commission gathered stakeholders from various backgrounds for a one-day conference on the future of animal welfare in Europe, where Jacopo Goracci, coordinator of Slow Food Razza Maremmana Presidium in Tuscany, Italy, bring the voice of small-scale agroecological …

EU Parliament Gives the Green Light to the Farm to Fork Strategy

26 October 2021

Slow Food welcomes the European Parliament’s vote in favour of the EU Farm to Fork Strategy, in spite of repeted corporate attempts to water it down over the past months. By doing so, the Parliament shows strong commitment to the transition to sustainable food systems. On October 19, the European Parliament adopted its Opinion report …

Choosing Good Food should not be this Complicated – a Vision for Improving EU Food Environments

13 October 2021 Madeleine Coste & Frank Mechielsen

[Originally published in Arc2020] The EU’s Farm to Fork Strategy won’t be realised unless policy goes beyond voluntary measures to gear food environments to promote truly sustainable diets. Participants in the EU Food Policy Coalition share their vision for improving food environments. Op-ed by Frank Mechielsen from Feedback Global and Madeleine Coste from Slow Food Europe. Food environments are …