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.
Publications
EU model chapter shows how to ensure trade-public health coherence
Protecting public health in EU and post-Brexit trade agreements
Unhealthy Trades: the side-effects of the European Union’s Latin American trade agreements
News & Advocacy
Joint Statement I Without rights for agri-food workers, Europe’s food supplies rest on shaky grounds
Labour conditions in the agri-food sector have been ignored for too long. Joint statement highlights the critical importance of working conditions for food chain workers for ensuring food and nutrition security and food system resilience.
read moreJoint letter I No further delay of the EU Farm to Fork Strategy
COVID-19 underlines the importance and urgency of moving towards healthy, resilient, sustainable food systems. Publication of the Farm to Fork Strategy should not be delayed.
read moreJoint letter I Less and better meat, dairy and eggs in the Farm to Fork Strategy
Joint letter calls for binding targets and measures to reduce industrial animal production, support better animal farming, and create enabling food environments for the uptake of more healthy, plant-rich diets.
read morePast Events
Reinventing the food system
3 April 2019
A new policy agenda to tackle the global syndemic of obesity, undernutrition and climate change.
Leveraging healthy and sustainable diets through agricultural policy reform
12 June 2018
EAT Forum 2018
EPHA gratefully acknowledges support from Fondation Daniel & Nina Carasso for part of its work on the CAP and health.