{"id":57290,"date":"2022-03-25T09:09:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T08:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bioecoactual.com\/?p=57290"},"modified":"2022-03-25T09:21:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T08:21:54","slug":"eu-parliament-saves-farm-to-fork-integrity-concedes-on-biodiversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bioecoactual.com\/en\/2022\/03\/25\/eu-parliament-saves-farm-to-fork-integrity-concedes-on-biodiversity\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Parliament saves Farm to Fork\u2019s integrity but concedes on Biodiversity"},"content":{"rendered":"

IFOAM Organics Europe<\/strong> welcomes the European Parliament\u2019s support to the Farm to Fork Strategy<\/strong> as the right policy direction to make European agriculture more resilient and independent. The resolution on food security adopted in 24 March plenary is a positive political signal, especially considering the weeks of intense lobbying to undermine the EU\u2019s ambition to make agriculture more sustainable.<\/p>\n

\"Farm<\/p>\n

\u00abThe relevant policy direction\u00bb against further crisis<\/h2>\n

IFOAM Organics Europe<\/strong>\u2019s President Jan Plagge<\/strong> said: \u00abThe Farm to Fork strategy remains, now more than ever, the relevant policy direction to adapt our farming system to current and future crises. The war against Ukraine raises legitimate concerns over price increases and availability of certain agriculture inputs, namely cereals for animal feed and synthetic fertilisers. It also forces us to re-think our food production system to make it more independent from external inputs, less input intensive and more resilient\u00bb.<\/p>\n

\u00abIncentivising and helping farmers to upscale existing agroecological solutions should be policymakers\u2019 priority\u00bb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00abPractical agronomic solutions already exist to achieve these goals, while ensuring both food security for all Europeans and beyond, as well as profitability for farmers. Incentivising and helping farmers to upscale existing agroecological solutions should be policymakers\u2019 priority. With support of the Common Agricultural Policy and the EU Farm to Fork strategy, it is possible to produce healthy food in sufficient quantity without synthetic pesticides and fertilisers, while preserving biodiversity, storing carbon in soils and making our food production more resilient to the increasing impacts of climate change\u00bb, adds Plagge<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Although the Parliament saved the EU Farm to Fork Strategy\u2019s integrity, IFOAM Organics Europe regrets that it has made concessions on key elements for biodiversity<\/strong>, supporting a temporal authorisation for the use of pesticides on Ecological Focus Areas.<\/p>\n