Food Systems & NCD Prevention
Food is at the heart of well-being. But today’s dominant 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
Farm to Fork
Preventing NCDs
Latest Developments
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The current CAP should be withdrawn to safeguard the Commission’s flagship European Green Deal policy.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.
MEPs and health NGOs call for a mandatory EU-wide front-of-pack nutrition labelling system for health, not profit
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...
Publications
A Farm to Fork Strategy for sustainable food systems
Paper I Public procurement for sustainable food environments
Paper I Towards an EU strategic framework for the prevention of NCDs
Analysis & Opinion
Human, ecological and animal health: a promising new narrative for sustainable food systems
Health offers a unifying concept, able to communicate deep meaning and provide a positive, inclusive vision, which can help transcend some of the current conflicts about the future of food.
A silent revolution: chief scientific advisors breathe life into EU food policy
Six key recommendations for a transformative Farm to Fork strategy.
Food 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.
EPHA RESPONSES TO CONSULTATIONS ON FOOD SYSTEMS & NCD PREVENTION
2020
NCD Prevention
Food & agriculture
Review of EU promotion policy for agricultural products
Animal welfare – evaluation of EU rules
Long-term vision for rural areas
Organic agriculture action plan
Marketing
EU strategy on the rights of the child
Children’s rights in relation to the digital environment
2019
Evaluation of the CAP measures applicable to the wine sector
EU farm policy – impact on society and the economy in rural areas
2018
Industrial trans fats in foods – setting a legal limit
Consultation on CAP Strategic Plans
Evaluation of the EU agricultural promotion policy
EU promotion policy for agricultural products, 2019 Work Programme
Pollinators Initiative consultation
TRIS contribution – Irish Public Health Alcohol Bill
2017
Evaluation of the impact of the CAP on climate change and greenhouse gas emissions
Modernising and Simplifying the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
Initiative to improve the Food Supply Chain (Unfair Trading Practices)
Evaluation of the CAP measures applicable to the wine sector
POLICIES FOR HEALTHY FOOD ENVIRONMENTS
What progress is made towards creating empowering food environments in Europe?
Events
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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