This document discusses transforming the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) into a Common Agricultural and Food Policy (CAFP) to address five major challenges: food security and safety, climate change, reducing ecological impacts, healthy diets, and inequality. It proposes five pillars for the CAFP: income support, ecosystem services, rural development, food and health, and monitoring and research. The CAFP would aim to make diets more healthy and sustainable, incorporate climate agreements into farm decisions, align incentives across the food chain, and support disruptive innovation in urban food systems.

1. Towards a Common Agricultural and Food Policy
Louise O. Fresco and Krijn J. Poppe

3. Five major challenges
 Food and nutrition security and safety
 Climate change and water & energy use
 Reducing ecological impacts
 Healthy diet for a lifelong healthy lifestyle
 Inequality

4. Five major innovation areas
 Genetics
 Digitalisation and big data
 Energy and bio-based transitions
 Redesigning the food chain
 Social innovations

5. Five misunderstandings
 ‘There is a crisis in agriculture’
 ‘It is wrong for the organisation of
the food chain to be so industrialised’
 ‘Agriculture is the main solution
for rural areas’
 ‘International trade is harmful’
 ‘The CAP is expensive and leads
to overproduction’

6. Five examples of a Common Agricultural
and Food Policy
 Make our diets more healthy and sustainable
with a price that factors in true costs
 Incorporate climate change agreements
in farm decisions
 Align incentives in the food chain
 Install smart instruments for environmental
management
 Support disruptive innovation in the
urban food system and bio-economy

7. Transforming the CAP into a
Common Agricultural and Food Policy

8. Transforming the CAP into a CAFP
Pillar A
INCOME
SUPPORT
Pillar B
ECOSYSTEM
SERVICES
Pillar C
RURAL
DEVELOPMENT
Pillar D
FOOD
& HEALTH
Pillar E
MONITORING
& RESEARCH

9. Pillar A: income support
By capping and targeting

10. Pillar B: ecosystem services
By contracts and schemes

11. Pillar C: rural development
Innovate for competitiveness

12. Pillar D: food & health
Address consumers, retail and industry

13. Pillar E: monitoring reflection and research
By the deployment of reflective citizen science
in support of adaptive governance

14. Questions &
Answers