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European Commission vice-president Frans Timmermans assured MEPs that the new EU Food policy and biodiversity strategy might be delayed by several weeks but no longer, after the launch was pushed back until 29 April, reports EURACTIV.
The Farm to Fork strategy (F2F) will be embedded in the EU’s flagship environmental policy, the Green Deal, and aims to make the entire food chain from production to consumption more sustainable and neutral in its impact on the environment.
In a leaked draft annual working programme, seen by EURACTIV, the F2F was recognised as a “very important initiative that will map out many farm-levels actions to improve climate and environmental performance” and, as such, “arguably, it should also reflect the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic in relation to food security.”
