Food policy in transition - from EU to municipal - who's cooking?

50 years of Agro-Policy has been production-oriented instead of demand-oriented
– Low degree of self-sufficiency
– Lack of profitability / farm extinction
– Extinction of species & climate crisis
– Animal suffering in industrial farming
– Poor working conditions
– Diet-related diseases
– lack of consumer confidence
– fragile supply chains

The degree of self-sufficiency in Germany with regard to vegetables, fruit, honey and cereals is too low! Too much dependence on imports!

FUTURE NEEDS: Needs-based nutrition environment
– Follow Planetary Health Diet concept

Responsibility goes back from the citizens to the community & politics
– Food as precautionary & welfare measure and not primarily as a private economic transaction
– Resilient, regional value creation with high degree of self-sufficiency
-From meat-, fat- and sugar-heavy to wholefood and predominantly plant-based

Services of general interest & food sovereignty:

– Structural/urban planning, incl. regional value creation
– Community & out-of-home catering
– Subsidy & fiscal policy
– Regulation of advertising and trade practices
– Urban farming and edible cities
– Prevention and health promotion

Cities and municipalities need to network and establish food councils!

Help may be coming from the EU:

There will be a new EU law for sustainable Food Systems, the Framework Regulation is expected in late summer/autumn 2023

Contents:
– Principles & goals of sustainability, health etc.
– Definitions, indicators, enforcement mechanisms
– Anchoring “nutrition environment
– Minimum requirements for sustainable (public) procurement
– Planetary Health Diet / Protein Strategy