How to change the Common Agriculture Policy?
Now with the CAP health check, the EU must consider having first the vocation to ensure the food security of its population, before claiming to feed the world. That is not being egoistic but, on the contrary, that is allowing the other countries to exert their food sovereignty right and to develop everywhere, in the North as in the South, a sustainable family farming. To ensure food security, to preserve our planet, to energize country side, agriculture must be officially recognized as being beneficial to the general public. Governments should declare as an objective the maintenance of all farmers in all regions in Europe. It is necessary to produce as close as possible to consumers, in order to reduce transport and to improve the quality of products. Let us recall that the EU is the first importer and exporter for agricultural and food products: this model is out-of-date. To achieve that, the international framework imposed on the agricultural policies since the nineties by the WTO ru
