RASE Journal

Viewpoint Food and Environmental Security: why, what, and how?
Allan Buckwell

Abstract
The world food system faces the extraordinary twin challenge of repeating the performance of the last half century of more than doubling food production during the next four decades and yet doing so with far smaller environmental impact. These food and environmental challenges are highly interrelated, and they are heightened by Climate Change. The paper argues that given its economic and political size these global matters are of concern to the EU. Furthermore food and environment have been, and should remain EU competences. It is therefore suggested that the CAP must further evolve to a policy for Food and Environmental Security with a budget adequate to the scale of the task faced. What this policy is and how we can move towards it are examined briefly.

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