Assessing the role of CAP for more sustainable and healthier food systems in Europe: A literature review

Recanati, Francesca; Maughan, Chris; Pedrotti, Michele; Dembska, Katarzyna; Antonelli, Marta

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.10.377

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“…However, it is important to recognize that not all elements of the CAP must align with the global SDGs, because the CAP has additional important EU priorities beyond the SDGs (e.g., maintenance of grassland, young farmers and small farms), which should not be disregarded as existing policies are increasingly directed towards achieving the SDGs. There is also a need for more indicators to assess responsible consumption and production (SDG 12) throughout the broader food system, including for food waste (Pe'er et al, 2017) and for how well the food production incentivized under the CAP aligns with healthy diets that lower nutrition-related diseases (Recanati et al, 2019) and supports both health and environmental goals (Willett et al, 2019). In order to support achieving the SDGs, these indicators may need to be explicitly assessed as impacts of European agriculture and agricultural policy, or else be considered specifically in other sectorsthe Farm to Fork Strategy (EC, n.d.b) needs to play a role here in coordinating across sectors in the food system.…”

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European agricultural policy requires a stronger performance framework to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

Scown

Nicholas

2020

Glob. Sustain.

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Non-technical summary Agriculture provides many benefits to people, such as producing food and creating jobs in rural areas, but it can also have negative impacts on the environment. We analysed existing monitoring indicators for the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to evaluate whether the CAP is effectively achieving multiple social and environmental goals. We found that the current CAP monitoring system is unable to balance many potentially competing goals because its indicators are biased towards a few objectives. We suggest the European Union and its Member States adopt a broader set of indicators covering clear targets when the policy is reformed after 2020.

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European agricultural policy requires a stronger performance framework to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

Scown

Nicholas

2020

Glob. Sustain.

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“…As part of achieving this goal, EU member states are encouraged to turn environmental challenges into growth opportunities and make efficient use of their natural resources (Balkyte and Tvaronaviciene, 2010). Furthermore, in line with the principle of sustainable development launched by the Rio Earth Summit, reforms in the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) objectives to support rural development support the idea of incentivising environmentally compatible farming practices through direct payments (Recanati et al, 2019). These institutional policies have obvious implications for enterprises, motivating them to protect the environment while at the same time stimulating them to extract value by exploring environmental credence for differentiation on the market.…”

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Understanding the role of environmental quality attributes in food-related rural enterprise competitiveness

Arthur

Yamoah

2019

Journal of Environmental Management

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Food-related rural enterprises are increasingly offering products with labels such as 'quality', 'green', or 'ethical' and 'sustainability' to justify high premiums for their products.  Thus, environmental quality attributes are becoming prevalent and important business strategy for rural food-related enterprises in the selected communities  Adoption of environmental quality attributes as a source of competitive advantage is influenced to a large extent by resources provided by government agencies and existing institutional framework towards sustainability and regional competitiveness.  Implications for rural enterprise competitiveness and future research on the interphase between sustainability and rural enterprise competitiveness highlighted *Highlights (for review) Click here to view linked References Understanding the role of environmental quality attributes in food-related

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“…China's top-down management system makes it much easier to implement large-scale developing projects or agricultural structural adjustments. Finally, food production is being further incorporated into landscape service and biodiversity management along with the reform of the CAP policy and the establishment of Agri-Urban Programs in the Greater Paris Region [4,6,78,79]. Beijing's top-down afforestation program on farmlands in the plain [45] implies that China's metropolitan areas still consider agriculture in a contradictive position with environmental concern.…”

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Grain Self-Sufficiency Capacity in China’s Metropolitan Areas under Rapid Urbanization: Trends and Regional Differences from 1990 to 2015

Huang

Liang

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Urbanization brings significant changes to the urban food system. There is growing attention to food self-sufficiency in metropolitan areas for the concern of greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation in food transportation. In China, grain self-sufficiency in metropolitan areas is also an important issue for grain security and involves coordination among contradictory policy goals. Based upon a comprehensive statistical analysis of 70 metropolitan areas in mainland China, we investigated the regional differences in the trends of grain self-sufficiency capacity in these areas from 1990 to 2015. The findings show a trend of decline in 3/4 of metropolitan areas, mainly located in the rapidly urbanizing eastern coastal areas and in the West. The increase of self-sufficiency mainly occurred in the North, in areas either specialized in grain production or originally low in grain self-sufficiency. The enlarging contradiction of decreasing supply and rising demand explained the sharp decrease in self-sufficiency, while the increase in self-sufficiency was due to the increase in supply. Land productivity contributed more significantly than land availability to supply change. There was a tradeoff between urban expansion (rather than economic growth) and grain production in metropolitan areas. Our results provide implications to future research and policy-making for grain production management in China’s metropolitan areas.

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Assessing the role of CAP for more sustainable and healthier food systems in Europe: A literature review

Cited by 62 publications

References 108 publications

European agricultural policy requires a stronger performance framework to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

European agricultural policy requires a stronger performance framework to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

Understanding the role of environmental quality attributes in food-related rural enterprise competitiveness

Grain Self-Sufficiency Capacity in China’s Metropolitan Areas under Rapid Urbanization: Trends and Regional Differences from 1990 to 2015

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