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