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Meet Jordan Stock, a Master’s student from Stanford University, as she shares her experience with the Nature and Sustainable Food Systems team as an a ...
CAP and Food
Sustainable food systems
Moving to a farming system that provides sufficient food to feed the world’s population, whilst reducing greenhouse gas emissions and environmental impacts, requires significant changes on the consumption side, including increases in plant based and alternative protein sources. It is also important that actors in the middle of the supply chain, such as processors and retailers, play their role in the transition to healthy and sustainable food chains.
Our priorities in this area:
Identifying policy options and governance models for sustainable food systems in Europe, whilst taking into account impacts outside the EU.
Promoting policy innovation to address unsustainable diets and consumption patterns, addressing environmental and health simultaneously.
Furthering knowledge and understanding of the land use and environmental impacts of different consumption-side changes.
Latest news
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This blog was written by Jordan Stock, a master’s student at Stanford University, during her summer placement with IEEP’s Student Programme. It draws on research ...
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I joined IEEP's Nature and Food Systems as a fellow through the School for Moral Ambition (SMA), with the aim to dig into one specific ...
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I’m Nora, a PhD student in Environmental Communication. I study environmental politics from a discursive perspective, and I take a special interest in the role ...
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European protein diversification is increasingly gaining momentum as a pathway to reach Europe’s 2040 climate targets, improve food security, mitigate environmental crises and enable healthy ...
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In this podcast we explore the challenges of financing the transition towards sustainable agri-food systems and the existing tools and policy instruments that could support ...
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The focus of this brief is placed on four interrelated issues: 1) the climate and land use footprint of the livestock sector; 2) the interactions ...
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This briefing summarises discussions from a TRAILS4SOIL Science4Policy event on advancing the uptake of regenerative and conservation agriculture (ReCAP) across Europe. ...
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This report examines how Europe's legume supply chains can be organised and governed to enable farmers to diversify into food-grade legume production in an economically ...
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Understanding how narratives shape policy is crucial for ensuring that environmental and climate goals remain central to EU agricultural governance. This brief calls for more ...
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This report addresses the dual role of nitrogen in food systems: as an essential nutrient for all life forms, and as a polluter and contributor ...
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One of the biggest inefficiencies of the agri-food chain is food waste, a fast-growing phenomenon whose very existence seriously challenges planetary boundaries. One-third of all ...
