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

Joint letter I Call to withdraw the CAP proposal

Nov 2, 2020

The current CAP should be withdrawn to safeguard the Commission’s flagship European Green Deal policy.

CAP for health: Voting recommendations for a human and planetary healthy EU agricultural policy

Oct 20, 2020

To be viable in the long-term, the CAP must contribute to a sustainable food system with health at its heart.

Joint Letter | It’s time for action to align the CAP with the EU Green Deal

Oct 1, 2020

Food, farming, development, climate, environmental, and public health movements across the EU express their strong alarm at the current failure of the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to reflect the priorities of the European Green Deal, which must become a powerful policy transformation tool to initiate the urgently needed transition towards sustainable and socially just food systems.