Will the Farm to Fork strategy be effective in changing food consumption behavior? A health psychology perspective

König, Laura M.; Araújo‐Soares, Vera

doi:10.1002/aepp.13220

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“…Given the concurrent challenges of obesity and undernutrition, concerted efforts to transform the food system are needed to provide healthy and sustainable diets to a growing global population (Swinburn et al, 2019;Willett et al, 2019). The European Farm to Fork strategy (Reinforcing Europe's Resilience, 2020) represents an effort in that direction, though as a strategy it lacks in depth and needs further development in key implementation features (König & Araújo-Soares, 2021).…”

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Health Psychology and Climate Change: Time to address humanity’s most existential crisis

Papies¹,

Nielsen²,

Soares³

2023

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Climate change is an ongoing and escalating health emergency. It threatens the health and wellbeing of billions of people, through extreme weather events, displacement, food insecurity, pathogenic diseases, societal destabilisation, and armed conflict. Climate change dwarfs all other challenges studied by health psychologists. The greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change disproportionately originate from the actions of wealthy populations in the Global North and are tied to excessive energy use and overconsumption driven by the pursuit of economic growth. Addressing this crisis requires significant societal transformations and individual behaviour change. Most of these changes will benefit not only the stability of the climate but will yield significant public health co-benefits. Because of their unique expertise and skills, health psychologists are urgently needed in crafting climate change mitigation responses. We propose specific ways in which health psychologists at all career stages can contribute, within the spheres of research, teaching, and policy making, and within organisations and as private citizens. As health psychologists, we cannot sit back and leave climate change to climate scientists. Climate change is a health emergency that results from human behaviour; hence it is in our power to address it.

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Health Psychology and Climate Change: Time to address humanity’s most existential crisis

Papies¹,

Nielsen²,

Soares³

2023

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“…Earlier research on the Farm to Fork Strategy provided comprehensive assessments (Schebesta and Candel, 2020), economic implications (Wesseler, 2022), (potential) impacts on the organic farming sector (Moschitz, 2021;Purnhagen et al, 2021), sustainable food consumption (König and Araújo-Soares, 2021) and animal welfare (Molitorisová and Burke, 2022). Others modeled the impact of the Strategy on input use including fertilizer input reduction in the EU (Beckman et al, 2022) and Italy (Cortignani et al, 2022).…”

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Achieving the nutrient reduction objective of the Farm to Fork Strategy. An assessment of CAP subsidies for precision fertilization and sustainable agricultural practices in Germany

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Ekardt

Roos

et al. 2023

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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The Farm to Fork Strategy of the EU aims at sustainable food systems. One objective of the Strategy is to reduce nutrient losses by at least 50% resulting in at least 20% less fertilizer use by 2030. To this end, Member States are expected to extend digital precision fertilization and sustainable agricultural practices through the Common Agricultural Policy. In this context, this article applies a qualitative governance analysis which aims to assess the extent to which the measures proposed by the Farm to Fork Strategy, i.e., digital precision fertilization and sustainable agricultural practices, contribute to the nutrient objective of the Farm to Fork Strategy. The article analyses how these measures are implemented through the Common Agricultural Policy in Germany and Saxony. Results show that the nutrient objective of the Farm to Fork Strategy itself offers shortcomings. Germany offers some, yet overall limited, support for sustainable agricultural practices and digital precision fertilization. Hence, the Common Agricultural Policy will to a limited extend only contribute to the objective of the Strategy. The results furthermore highlight some general shortcomings of digitalization as sustainability strategy in the agricultural sector including typical governance issues (rebound and enforcement problems), and point to the advantages of quantity-based policy instruments.

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“…In 2020, per-capita meat consumption in the EU was 68 kg (retail weight), more than twice the global average, with the consumption projections for 2030 remaining virtually steady (OECD/FAO 2021). 1 While strong action would be needed to halt these meat consumption trends, the F2F arguably fails to tackle the issue effectively (Jackson et al 2021;König and Araújo-Soares 2021). Although the F2F acknowledges that the transition towards a sustainable food system needs a shift in people's diets: "a more plantbased diet with less red and processed meat and with more fruits and vegetables" (EC 2020a, p. 12), no specific targets are set for meat consumption.…”

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“…In practice, there are very few examples of governments implementing measures to steer meat consumption towards sustainable diets (Röös et al 2021) other than some dietary guidelines that include environmental concerns (e.g., DVFA 2021). However, a substantial literature suggests that information-based measures alone are insufficient to accomplish major shifts in people's diets (Brambila-Macias et al 2011;König and Araújo-Soares 2021;SAPEA 2020). This is partly explained by the power dynamics across the food system, which cannot be adequately addressed by focusing solely on consumer choice or individual responsibility (Fuchs et al 2016;Jackson et al 2021).…”

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The elephant in the room is really a cow: using consumption corridors to define sustainable meat consumption in the European Union

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Implementing the European Green Deal requires a consistent food systems’ policy that involves not only targeting the supply side but also conducting extensive changes in diets at the consumer level. Reducing meat consumption is an obvious strategy to put the European food system on track to meet the Green Deal’s goals. This cannot be achieved by focusing solely on consumer choice and individual responsibility. Stronger governance is required to reduce the scale of meat consumption to sustainable levels. Such governance needs to be informed by a holistic definition of “sustainable meat consumption”, designed to ensure that important sustainability priorities are not neglected, and to account for all emissions associated with EU consumption, regardless of where production takes place. This article presents a conceptual framework to define “sustainable meat consumption” based on the concept of consumption corridors (CCs). A CC is the space between a minimum (the floor) and maximum (the ceiling) consumption level, which allows everybody to satisfy their needs without compromising others’ ability to meet their own. Embedded in a powerful set of principles (recognizing universal needs; tackling both over and under-consumption; framing food as a common good; promoting public participation; and addressing environmental justice and planetary sustainability), CCs are attuned to the Green Deal’s ambition to “leave no one behind”, in the EU and beyond. CCs provide a demand-side solution encompassing a more equitable alternative to discuss what is actually a “fair share” of the world’s limited resources when it comes to meat consumption.

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Will the Farm to Fork strategy be effective in changing food consumption behavior? A health psychology perspective

Cited by 14 publications

References 110 publications

Health Psychology and Climate Change: Time to address humanity’s most existential crisis

Health Psychology and Climate Change: Time to address humanity’s most existential crisis

Achieving the nutrient reduction objective of the Farm to Fork Strategy. An assessment of CAP subsidies for precision fertilization and sustainable agricultural practices in Germany

The elephant in the room is really a cow: using consumption corridors to define sustainable meat consumption in the European Union

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