Insufficient consideration for food issue in CAP

30 May 2018

The Commission is due to unveil its next Common Agriculture Policy on June 1st and Olivier De Schutter, former UN Special Rapporteur on the right for food and co-chair of the international expert panel IPES-Food, calls on the European Commission to lay the foundations for a Common Food Policy. The food dimension is not sufficiently present in the CAP, which focuses more on production than consumption. Read Euractiv’s article here.