by European Public Health Alliance | Feb 19, 2021 | Antimicrobial Resistance | Latest Developments, Farm to Fork, Food, Drink and Agriculture | Latest Developments
The EU ban on the routine use of antimicrobials in animal production starts applying in January 2022. EPHA joins in asking the Commission about what preparations are being taken to ensure compliance with these rules? 2.12.0.02.12.0.02.12.0.0 DOWNLOAD LETTER 18...
by European Public Health Alliance | Jan 28, 2021 | CAP & Health, Farm to Fork, Food, Drink and Agriculture | 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...
by Nikolai Pushkarev | Dec 22, 2020 | Farm to Fork, Food, Drink and Agriculture | Analysis & Opinion
To facilitate a shift towards healthier, more sustainable diets, the EU Farm to Fork strategy points to the creation of a “favourable food environment”. A ‘food environment approach’ recognises that a wide range of contextual factors, which are mostly beyond...
by Nikolai Pushkarev | Nov 16, 2020 | Farm to Fork, Food, Drink and Agriculture | Analysis & Opinion
Governments should renew their narrative and priorities, and start promoting “human, ecological and animal health” as a core focus of sustainable food systems. This is the central theme of a recently published guide to government action by the Global Alliance for the...
by European Public Health Alliance | Oct 16, 2020 | Farm to Fork, Food, Drink and Agriculture | Latest Developments
Ahead of the meeting of the AGRIFISH Council on 19-20 October, EPHA has joined four European health organisations and two Members of European Parliament in writing to EU agriculture ministers to ask them to put health above commercial interests when discussing a...
by European Public Health Alliance | Oct 1, 2020 | CAP & Health, Climate Emergency & EU Green Deal, Farm to Fork, Food, Drink and Agriculture | Latest Developments
Open letter to the President of the European Commission, the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, and the Conference of Presidents of the European Parliament calling for full alignment of the reformed Common Agricultural Policy with the European Green...
