by Milka Sokolović | Oct 26, 2022 | Healthy Environments | Analysis & Opinion, The View from EPHA
When it comes to shaping food systems, people’s food choices can have a big impact. One of this year’s European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) sessions was dedicated to exactly that: exploring the role of citizens in multi-governance efforts to transition to safer,...
by Nikolai Pushkarev | Sep 29, 2022 | CAP & Health, Healthy Environments | Analysis & Opinion
Enriched with a new objective to promote better health, how has the EU’s freshly reformed common agricultural policy (CAP) fared so far in translating this aim into action? Following a rapid assessment of five national CAP strategic plans, we found little indication...
by Nikolai Pushkarev | May 20, 2022 | Farm to Fork, Healthy Environments | Analysis & Opinion
Today, on its second anniversary, faced with unprecedented turmoil in Europe, the fate of the EU Farm to Fork strategy hangs in the balance. But the strategy’s vision for a sustainable food systems transition is needed now more than ever. To secure a prosperous...
by European Public Health Alliance | Mar 31, 2022 | Healthy Environments | Analysis & Opinion
By Luana F.J. Swensson, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsThe Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have recently...
by European Public Health Alliance | Mar 31, 2022 | Healthy Environments | Analysis & Opinion
Guest article by Dr. med. Lisa Pörtner, German Alliance for Climate Change and Health (KLUG)Nutrition has long been on the sidelines of medical education and practice. Rather than acknowledging the importance of dietary choices and their effects on human health, our...
by European Public Health Alliance | Mar 31, 2022 | Healthy Environments | Analysis & Opinion, Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs)
Guest article by Emil Juslin, European Policy Officer at IOGT-NTO, and Runa Neely, European Liasion Officer at IOGT-NTOThe question of alcohol labelling has been a topic of discussion in the EU since the 1970s, yet there is still no legislation in place. Since the...
