CAP for HEALTH

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is the EU’s oldest and largest policy with multiple impacts on human and planetary health. In its next seven-year period, the CAP will distribute at least 365 billion EUR, or nearly 30% of the EU budget. How this money is spent will shape the human and environmental health impacts of the policy.

EPHA advocates to reinvent the CAP to ensure it contributes to a green recovery and fully supports the transition towards sustainable, future-proof food systems.

CAP Briefing

Policy Proposals

Download our briefing where we highlight 11 main ways on how the CAP can direct its funding to deliver for better health. Consult our online policy proposals aimed at encouraging the development of credible, meaningful and comprehensive policy responses to realise European agriculture’s potential to promote healthy and sustainable living.

News & Advocacy

Open Letter I The new CAP needs Social Conditionality

Feb 17, 2021

EPHA joins 300+ organisations and academics in calling for raised labour standards in European agriculture and adding social conditionality to the new CAP.

Joint policy brief I An agroecology approach to shape policies and transform EU food systems

Jan 28, 2021

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...

Joint letter I Request for transparency in CAP trilogues

Nov 30, 2020

The CAP will spend €387 billion of EU taxpayers’ money until 2027. It is essential that European citizens are able to follow and engage with such critically important decision-making processes.