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 Nikolai Pushkarev | Apr 30, 2020 | Farm to Fork, Food, Drink and Agriculture | Analysis & Opinion
In two exceptionally lucid reports, EU scientific advisors overturn the ‘business as usual’ approach to European food policy. Published in April by the European Commission’s Scientific Advice Mechanism (SAM), these papers herald a silent revolution...
by Nikolai Pushkarev | Feb 6, 2020 | Farm to Fork, Food, Drink and Agriculture | Analysis & Opinion, Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs)
2020 is a year full of promise. If the European Commission adds ambition to its commitments, it can plant the seeds for real change towards preventing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) – the 21st century’s foremost health threat, and for transitioning towards...
by European Public Health Alliance | Dec 19, 2019 | #EU4Health, Clean Air | Analysis & Opinion, Climate Emergency & EU Green Deal, Food, Drink and Agriculture | Analysis & Opinion, The View from EPHA
While certain world leaders deny the climate crisis, the European Commission last week published a comprehensive plan to “reboot” the EU’s economy and society towards a sustainable future – the European Green Deal. The Green Deal rides on the back of ever-more...
by European Public Health Alliance | Dec 18, 2019 | Food, Drink and Agriculture | Analysis & Opinion
By Paola Hernandez Olivan, Health Care Without Harm Europe Most of the food that is eaten in the EU passes from farms downstream to food and beverage manufacturers for subsequent processing or transformation and then on to food and beverage retailers or consumer...
