The EU’s Farm to Fork (F2F) strategy wants 25% of EU agricultural land farmed organically by 2030, a three-fold increase, reports EURACTIV.
The strategy, which was released on Wednesday (20 May) after several delays, emphasises the potential of organic agriculture for safeguarding the EU’s environment and creating a sustainable agricultural system.
“The market for organic food is set to continue growing and organic farming needs to be further promoted,” the strategy reads, highlighting that it has a “positive impact on biodiversity, it creates jobs and attracts young farmers.”
To support the uptake of sustainable practices, the strategy offered new ‘eco-schemes’ as a major stream of funding to support practices such as precision agriculture, agro-ecology, agro-forestry and carbon farming.
