Food Systems & NCD Prevention
Food is at the heart of well-being. But today’s food system is unsustainable: it is eroding health, disrupting ecosystems and reinforcing socio-economic inequities. Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the 21st century’s foremost health threat, responsible for the vast majority of premature deaths and diseases. NCDs are highly preventable.
EPHA advocates for policies to tackle the common risk factors to NCDs, and advance a transition towards resilient, sustainable food systems with health-enabling food environments.
CAP for Health
Food environments
Preventing NCDs
Publications
Paper I Public procurement for sustainable food environments
Paper I Towards an EU strategic framework for the prevention of NCDs
Briefing I CAP: 11 Ways to Deliver for Better Health
Latest Developments
EPHA view on Farm to Fork: Start of a serious debate on the future of food systems
With Farm to Fork published, the cards are on the table and the real game can now begin.
read moreJoint 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 moreAnalysis & Opinion
A silent revolution: chief scientific advisors breathe life into EU food policy
Six key recommendations for a transformative Farm to Fork strategy.
read moreFood systems & NCD prevention: The promises of 2020
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.
read moreRecipe for a healthy EU Green Deal
The EU Green Deal is a public health strategy to its core and people’s health will benefit tremendously if its actions are properly designed and implemented
read moreSURVEY
Do you know about the new opportunities for health in EU food and agricultural policies?
Events
WEBINAR | New opportunities for health in European food & agricultural policies
11 May 2020
Reinventing the food system
3 April 2019
Leveraging Healthy and Sustainable Diets Through Agricultural Policy Reform
12 June 2018
Make health your business
7 September 2017
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Do you have a question?
Meet our Food Systems & NCD Prevention Lead and Scientific Advisors.
Nikolai Pushkarev
Policy Coordinator
nikolai@epha.org
+32 2 233 3876
Dr. Aileen Robertson
EPHA Scientific Advisor on Nutrition Policy
Public Health Nutritionist, University College Copenhagen
Prof. Nick Sheron MD, FRCP
EPHA Scientific Advisor on Alcohol Policy
Professor and Head of Clinical Hepatology within Medicine at the University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital,
Prof. John Britton
EPHA Scientific Advisor on Tobacco Policy
Professor of Epidemiology; Director, UK Centre for Tobacco & Alcohol Studies, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences