How Ang Chong Yi Singapore is serving up sustainable future-ready foods?
1 why agricultural policies
1. The CAP, yesterday, today and tomorow
2015/2016
SBSEM and European Commission
1. Why an agricultural policy?
Tomas Garcia Azcarate
2. Product characteristics
• Often perishable
• Produced during a short period of the year and
consumed all year round
• Closely related to nature and biology, therefore
unpredictable
10. Political issues
• Food security, historical concerns
• Even today, political instability: Arab spring; food
refugees all round the word
• How to feed 9 billion mouths in 2050?
• Changes in food habits. Engel’s Law.
• Food safety - new important issue
• Understandable citizen anxiety
12. Rural and territorial issues
• Agriculture manages 50% of Europe’s territory,
75% with forest
• Our landscapes have been transformed over the
centuries
• Desertification, erosion and fires are real risks
related to land abandonment
• Overuse of underground water and pesticides are
also real concerns
13. If you want to know more …
• DG AGRI webpage:
http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/index_en.htm
• My webpage:
http://tomasgarciaazcarate.com
• Twitter: Tgarciaazcarate
• Linkedin: Tomas Garcia Azcarate
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