Europe faces serious problems related to food production and consumption. Producing food depends on a healthy environment and predictable climatic conditions. At the same time, modern agriculture is a major contributor to the climate and biodiversity crises. 

The challenges of food security, food waste, access to healthy diets and the environmental footprint of food production are closely interrelated. To address them, the European Union has put forward “Farm to fork”, a strategy for a fair, healthy and environmentally friendly food system. 

On 1 February, participants entered the dialogue with the webinar hosts Ewa Iwaszuk and Aaron Best from Ecologic Institute and their expert guests  Lukas Visek, a member of cabinet of Frans Timmermans, Executive Vice President of the European Commission for the European Green Deal, and responsible for the „Farm to fork“ strategy, and Faustine Bas-Defossez, Director for Nature, Health and Environment at the European Environmental Bureau. 

The webinar is part of a new webinar series for young people in Europe that Ecologic Institute kick-started in 2022.

We have already produced a podcast episode on the topic that you can listen to ahead of the webinar: https://www.greendealbigdeal.eu/podcast/episode-4/

Below you can watch the video recordings of Lukas Visek and Faustine Bas-Defossez' presentations.