Enjoy, it's from Europe 🍎🥕🍗🧀🍷
In 2023, the European Commission will allocate €185.9 million to fund promotional activities for sustainable, high quality EU food.
Details: https://europa.eu/!9rPxgG
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUAgri/status/1603752757814403072
@Trade_EU @Food_EU €83.1 million of #EUAgriPromo money will be used to promote EU food abroad.
The main targets are areas with high growth potential: China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, North America, New Zealand, Australia, and the UK, which absorbs 25% of EU agri-food exports 🌍
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUAgri/status/1603755655776477184
@EUAgri
Subsidies for exportation are not coherent with the overall goal of improving the sustainability of EU agriculture:
* distort the markets of the importing countries.
* favour industrial agricultural practices because of questionable requirements regarding uniform shape and appearance of products.
* agrobusiness companies of medium to large size are more likely to access/benefit from this kind of subsidies, setting unfair conditions for smaller farms.
* the promotion of global supply chains for agricultural products makes very little sense considering a) very high emissions resulting from transport (especially for fresh fruits/vegetables that frequently require air transport and cooling) and b) the fragility of global logistics, as we have seen recently.
Notwithstanding, there ARE indeed situations where exportation can make sense. Therefore the question should be: are these subsidies are connected to requirements regarding environmental or social sustainability?
(and by this I refer to something more strategic and directed than the current CAP).
🌱 €36 million will support the promotion of sustainable agriculture practices,
🌱 up to €28 million will be used for campaigns for organic products,
🌱 and €19 million will be earmarked for the promotion of fresh fruit & vegetables.
#EUAgriPromo #EUFarm2Fork
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUAgri/status/1603756902516760576