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Amir Kassam <[log in to unmask]>
Fri, 8 Feb 2019 19:12:22 +0000
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*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE*

*for sustainable agriculture and land management*

Dear Subscribers,

The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food)
has launched the EU food policy report released by  REPORT RELEASE: Towards
a Common Food Policy for the EU.

The report is avaialble at:

http://www.ipes-food.org/pages/CommonFoodPolicy?utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=060b24d985-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_01_31_09_54&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_302e2e7b80-060b24d985-316289601

Thank you Dr. Mrabet for sharing.


*Amir Kassam *

*Moderator*

*Global CA-CoP*

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URL: www.fao.org/ag/ca



*Conservation Agriculture is an ecosystem approach to regenerative
sustainable agriculture and land management based on the practical
application of context-specific and locally adapted three interlinked
principles of: (i) Continuous no or minimum mechanical soil disturbance
(no-till seeding/planting and weeding, and minimum soil disturbance with
all other farm operations including harvesting);  (ii) permanent
maintenance of soil mulch cover (crop biomass, stubble and cover crops);
and (iii) diversification of cropping system (economically, environmentally
and socially adapted rotations and/or sequences and/or associations
involving annuals and perennials, including legumes and cover crops), along
with other complementary good agricultural production and land management
practices. Conservation Agriculture systems are present in all continents,
involving rainfed and irrigated systems including annual cropland systems,
perennial systems, orchards and plantation systems, agroforestry systems,
crop-livestock systems, pasture and rangeland systems, organic production
systems and rice-based systems. Conservation Tillage and Minimum Tillage
are not Conservation Agriculture, and nor is No-Till on its own* (more at:
www.fao.org/ag/ca).


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From: Rachid Mrabet <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 1:09 PM
Subject: Fwd: REPORT RELEASE: Towards a Common Food Policy for the EU
To: Emilio GONZALEZ (ECAF) <[log in to unmask]>, Amir Kassam <
[log in to unmask]>, Gottlieb Basch <[log in to unmask]>


Dear friends

I hope you are doing fine. The International Panel of Experts on
Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) has launched the EU food policy and it
is available at:

http://www.ipes-food.org/pages/CommonFoodPolicy?utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=060b24d985-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_01_31_09_54&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_302e2e7b80-060b24d985-316289601

All the best

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Dr Rachid Mrabet
Directeur de Recherche/Senior Scientist
Chef de la division scientifique/Head of Scientific Division
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)
Avenue de la Victoire
P.O. Box 415 Rabat 10000 Morocco
tel: +212660157040


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*NEWSLETTER*
07.02.2019
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Common Food Policy for Europe unveiled — a blueprint for reform shaped by
400 food system actors

A Common Food Policy
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for Europe is urgently required to address climate change, halt
biodiversity loss, curb obesity, and make farming viable for the next
generation.

This was the key message of a report
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launched today by IPES-Food, following a three year process of
participatory research.

Launching the report at the European Parliament and the European Economic
and Social Committee, Olivier De Schutter, IPES-Food co-chair and lead
author, said: “A Common Food Policy can spark a wholesale transition to
sustainable food systems in a way that the CAP, as a Common *Agricultural*
Policy, cannot.”

“Currently, we have anti-obesity strategies, alongside agri-trade policies
that make junk food cheap and abundant. We offer premiums to young farmers,
alongside a subsidy model that drives up land prices and undermines access
to land. And we have strict environmental standards, while the advisory
services farmers would need to meet them are being defunded.”

“A Common Food Policy can put an end to these costly contradictions by
tackling the root of the problem: the way we make policies and set
priorities in food systems.”

The report puts forward 80 concrete reform proposals, carefully sequenced
over the short-, medium- and long-term (see below).

De Schutter added: “The Common Food Policy is an ambitious reform agenda.
But it is realistic because the proposals are designed to reinforce one
another. The most ambitious reforms will become viable on the basis of
reclaiming policy-making from powerful lobbies, bringing new actors around
the table, and allowing new priorities and new coalitions of interest to
emerge.”

The Common Food Policy vision draws on the collective intelligence of more
than 400 farmers, food entrepreneurs, civil society activists, scientists
and policymakers consulted through 5 policy labs in Brussels, 4 local labs
around Europe, and the May 2018 EU Food and Farming Forum
(EU3F). It includes reform ideas endorsed by the European Parliament, the
European Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions, and
broad civil society coalitions.

“This report is a call to action,” De Schutter said, calling on the EU
institutions and Member States to raise their ambitions in current CAP
reforms, to urgently align the various policies affecting food systems, and
ultimately to complete and put in place a comprehensive Common Food Policy
for the EU.

READ THE FULL REPORT (EN) AND EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (EN, FR, IT, ES, DE)
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More information on the Common Food Policy blueprint:

Governance reforms are the first building block of a Common Food Policy.
The report also puts forward proposals for reforming and realigning
policies under five key objectives:





*1. ENSURING ACCESS TO LAND, WATER AND HEALTHY SOILS 2. REBUILDING
CLIMATE-RESILIENT, HEALTHY AGRO-ECOSYSTEMS 3. PROMOTING SUFFICIENT, HEALTHY
AND SUSTAINABLE DIETS FOR ALL 4. BUILDING FAIRER, SHORTER AND CLEANER
SUPPLY CHAINS 5. PUTTING TRADE IN THE SERVICE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT*

The proposals include the following:

   - Create a European Commission Vice-President for Sustainable Food
   Systems and a Food Intergroup in the European Parliament to oversee &
   harmonize sectoral policies (CAP, trade, environment, etc.).
   - Require Member States to develop Healthy Diet Plans (covering public
   procurement, urban planning, fiscal and social policies, marketing &
   nutrition education) as a condition for unlocking CAP payments, & introduce
   comprehensive EU-wide restrictions on junk food marketing.
   - Introduce an EU-wide ‘agroecology premium’ as a new rationale for
   distributing CAP payments, rebuild independent farm advisory services, and
   create an EU Land Observatory to promote a widespread shift to sustainable
   farming and land use.
   - Make food importers accountable for ensuring their supply chains are
   free from deforestation, land-grabs and rights violations (‘due
   diligence’), remove investor protections (‘ISDS’) in trade agreements, and
   provide accessible complaints mechanisms for farmers and civil society.
   - Increase support for initiatives linking farmers and consumers (‘short
   supply chains’), relocalized processing and value-adding activities, local
   food policy councils, and urban food policies.
   - Create an EU Food Policy Council to bring the concerns of local food
   system actors to the EU level and ensure that EU policies are
   systematically designed to support the emergence of local food initiatives.

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