In its submission to the public consultation on modernising and simplifying the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the international organisation Slow Food argued on Tuesday 2 May for the CAP to shift towards a “common food policy” in future, in order to be able to develop more effective measures to tackle food waste (see EUROPE 11517 and 11559).
Slow Food also calls for the recognition of food sovereignty, this is “the right of peoples to … food produced through ecologically sound...