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 Request for transparency in CAP trilogues
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.
Joint letter I Call to withdraw the CAP proposal
The current CAP should be withdrawn to safeguard the Commission’s flagship European Green Deal policy.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
To be viable in the long-term, the CAP must contribute to a sustainable food system with health at its heart.
Publications
Past Events
Reinventing the food system
3 April 2019
A new policy agenda to tackle the global syndemic of obesity, undernutrition and climate change.

EPHA gratefully acknowledges support from Fondation Daniel & Nina Carasso for part of its work on the CAP and health.