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World Food Day 2024: Still struggling with hunger
World Food Day is celebrated every year on 16 October to promote awareness and action in support of those who suffer from hunger. What is more, over 2.8 billion people – around one third of the world's population – were unable to afford a healthy diet in 2022. The average cost of such a diet continues to increase globally reaching 3.96 purchasing power parity dollars per person per day in 2022. Read our infographic to dig deeper into the topic.
Food waste: Every little effort makes a difference
At least one billion meals are being wasted in households worldwide every day. This is the equivalent of a meal served every day to every single person in the world suffering from hunger. Importantly, when food is discarded, all the embedded energy and resources and their environmental consequences, such as greenhouse gas emissions – that accumulate along the food chain – still materialise with no benefit for human nutrition.
Achieving food security: Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG 2) - The EU's role in ending hunger and improving nutrition
On 8-17 July 2024, the UN high-level political forum on sustainable development assessed progress towards SDG 2: 'End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture'. It is unlikely this goal will be met by 2030. Instead, food insecurity, malnutrition and food prices have worsened globally. The primary causes of food insecurity are threefold: conflict, economic instability, and extreme weather conditions, which frequently intersect and exacerbate one another ...
Research for the AGRI Committee - The dependency of the EU’s food system on inputs and their sources.
This study analyses the vulnerabilities of the EU food system regarding inputs, describing the tools to secure those inputs and make the EU less dependent on foreign suppliers. It provides recommendations for appropriate measures to increase the EU food system’s resilience to disruptions in trade flows and price increases of imported inputs.
Research for the AGRI Committee - The dependency of the EU’s food system on inputs and their sources
This study analyses the vulnerabilities of the EU food system regarding inputs, describing the tools to secure those inputs and make the EU less dependent on foreign suppliers. It provides recommendations for appropriate measures to increase the EU food system’s resilience to disruptions in trade flows and price increases of imported inputs.
EU 'farm to fork' strategy: State of play
The 'farm to fork' strategy is about building sustainable EU food systems, in line with the EU's Green Deal. Launched in May 2020, its elements are moving at different speeds, with much debate on its objectives and priorities. The EU institutions are helping to shape the various elements of the strategy. This is an update of an 'at a glance' note first published in October 2021.
World leaders gathered for the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, at a time of rising geopolitical tensions, including an ongoing war of aggression, military conflicts, coup d'états in western Africa, accelerating climate change crisis, food insecurity, widening inequality and sustainable development concerns. Against the backdrop in the implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) the theme chosen for this year's general debate, marking ...
Critical raw materials act
In March 2023, the European Commission adopted a proposal for a regulation establishing a framework to ensure the EU's access to a secure and sustainable supply of critical raw materials (CRMs) – the 'CRMs act'. During its September plenary session, the European Ϸվ is expected to vote on the report adopted on 7 September by its Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE). The report as voted would then form Ϸվ's position for interinstitutional negotiations with the Council, ...
Sustainable food systems - Pre-legislative synthesis of national, regional and local positions on the European Commission's initiative
This briefing provides a pre-legislative synthesis of the positions of national, regional and local governmental organisations on the European Commission's forthcoming proposal on sustainable food systems. It forms part of an EPRS series offering a summary of the pre-legislative state of play and advance consultation on a range of key European Commission priorities during its 5-year term in office. It seeks to present the current state of affairs, examine how existing policy is working on the ground ...
During its June plenary session, Ϸվ is due to debate the report of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI) on Ensuring food security and the long-term resilience of EU agriculture. Ϸվ is also to vote on policy recommendations to address global and EU food security and strengthen the EU's agricultural resilience.