Europe's Farm to Fork Strategy and Its Commitment to Biotechnology and Organic Farming: Conflicting or Complementary Goals?

Biotechnology Europe Farms Goals Organic Agriculture

Journal

Trends in plant science
ISSN: 1878-4372
Titre abrégé: Trends Plant Sci
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9890299

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
06 2021
Historique:
received: 05 02 2021
revised: 15 03 2021
accepted: 18 03 2021
pubmed: 25 4 2021
medline: 22 5 2021
entrez: 24 4 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

The European Commission's Farm to Fork (F2F) strategy, under the European Green Deal, acknowledges that innovative techniques, including biotechnology, may play a role in increasing sustainability. At the same time, organic farming will be promoted, and at least 25% of the EU's agricultural land shall be under organic farming by 2030. How can both biotechnology and organic farming be developed and promoted simultaneously to contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? We illustrate that achieving the SDGs benefits from the inclusion of recent innovations in biotechnology in organic farming. This requires a change in the law. Otherwise, the planned increase of organic production in the F2F strategy may result in less sustainable, not more sustainable, food systems.

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2021.03.012 PMID: 33893049
pubmed: 33893049
pii: S1360-1385(21)00071-6
doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2021.03.012
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Review

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

600-606

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Declaration of Interests L.F. is a Non-Executive Director of the Board of Directors of Syngenta. The other authors have no interests to declare.

Auteurs

Kai P Purnhagen (KP)

Faculty of Life Science, Faculty of Law, Research Unit for German and European Food Law, University of Bayreuth, Kulmbach and Bayreuth, Germany. Electronic address: kai.purnhagen@uni-bayreuth.de.

Stephan Clemens (S)

Faculty of Life Science, Plant Physiology, University of Bayreuth, Kulmbach and Bayreuth, Germany.

Dennis Eriksson (D)

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden.

Louise O Fresco (LO)

Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Jale Tosun (J)

Political Science, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.

Matin Qaim (M)

International Food Economics and Rural Development, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.

Richard G F Visser (RGF)

Plant Breeding, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Andreas P M Weber (APM)

Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Cluster of Excellence on Plant Science (CEPLAS), Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Justus H H Wesseler (JHH)

Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

David Zilberman (D)

Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.

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