Protect European green agricultural policies for future food security
Manuel B. Morales, Mario Dı́az, David Giralt, Francesc Sardà‐Palomera, Juán Traba, François Mougeot, David Serrano, Santi Mañosa, Sabrina Gaba, Francisco Moreira, Tomas Pärt, Elena D. Concepción, Rocío Tarjuelo, Beatriz Arroyo, Gérard Bota
Abstract
The European Union’s new (2023–2027) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) aims to reverse current environmental degradation and biodiversity declines in European farmland 1 through the achievement of three green objectives: contribute to climate change mitigation, support efficient natural resource management, and reverse biodiversity loss 2 , 3 . Following the outbreak of war in Ukraine, the European Commission proposed a series of short and medium-term relaxations to CAP’s environmental commitments to offset expected shortages in grain imports and enhance food security 4 .