by Nikolai Pushkarev | Sep 29, 2022 | CAP & Health, Healthy Environments | Analysis & Opinion
Enriched with a new objective to promote better health, how has the EU’s freshly reformed common agricultural policy (CAP) fared so far in translating this aim into action? Following a rapid assessment of five national CAP strategic plans, we found little indication...
by European Public Health Alliance | Jan 28, 2022 | Antimicrobial Resistance | Analysis & Opinion, CAP & Health, Healthy Environments | Analysis & Opinion
Achieving deep reductions in farm antibiotics use will require widespread changes in animal husbandry practices towards higher animal welfare, argues a new paper written for EPHA. On 28 January 2022, ambitious rules restricting the use of veterinary antimicrobials...
by European Public Health Alliance | May 12, 2021 | CAP & Health, Farm to Fork, Healthy Environments | Publications
A modelling study commissioned by EPHA, implemented by CIHEAM-IAMM, explored the effects of an agricultural producer subsidy on the availability and accessibility of fruits, vegetables and pulses in France. It concluded that product-based subsidies can make an...
by European Public Health Alliance | Apr 30, 2021 | CAP & Health, Healthy Environments | Latest Developments
EPHA joins calls for the European Commission to implement its promise to phase out caged animal farming. The End the Cage Age European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) launched on 11 September 2018 is the 6th ECI to succeed in the last eight years and the first one for...
by European Public Health Alliance | Feb 17, 2021 | CAP & Health, Healthy Environments | Latest Developments
EPHA joins 300+ organisations and academics in calling for raised labour standards in European agriculture and adding social conditionality to the new CAP. 2.12.0.0 2.12.0.0 2.12.0.0 2.12.0.0 2.12.0.0 DOWNLOAD LETTER 17 February 2021At least ten million people...
by European Public Health Alliance | Jan 28, 2021 | CAP & Health, Farm to Fork, Healthy Environments | Publications
This policy paper, supported by EPHA, puts forward a proposal to mainstream agroecology into the policies governing EU food systems. It uses the FAO ‘10 Elements of Agroecology’ and ‘13 Agroecological Principles’ as a framework to envision how agroecology should be...
