A more sustainable CAP... there is no choice!

Abstract

During the past 60 years, agricultural policies and actions have developed in Europe in such a way that they have guaranteed almost everyone in the EU has been free from hunger. But this is not the case yet in parts of the rest of the world. Hence the vision of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization – FAO – of creating ‘a world free from hunger and malnutrition’, as reflected in Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2. Such a vision requires insight into the different pathways to achieving a world free from hunger in an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable manner. The FAO report ‘The future of food and agriculture – Alternative pathways to 2050 ’ and other key FAO documents help to identify some of the opportunities for the transformation towards sustainable agri-food systems, and some of the core challenges.