As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to unfold, it is increasingly clear that we are witnessing a crisis on top of other already existing crises, concerning human and planetary health, climate change, inequality and injustice. The food system plays an essential role in all of them, while also being a core part of the needed response.
We wrote the the European Commission’s Executive Vice President Frans Timmermans and Commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski asking for them to scrap the EU’s common agricultural policy and to start over.