The Green Deal made public by the European Com-mission includes the Farm to Fork strategy, which aims to implement actions for a transition towards more environmentally friendly agricultural systems, capable of adapting to climate change and, as far as possible, contributing to its mitigation. A really am- bitious goal, clearly aligned to a more than necessary green transition, raises a series of challenges and doubts that should at least be pondered. One of the many uncertainties raised by the Green Deal is whether this new strategy will allow the maintenance of the productivity of agricultural systems and en- sure the caloric needs of a European population that, despite the health crisis caused by COVID-19, does not stop growing gradually.
The EU's food self-sufficiency is an issue that to date has not been studied with the necessary atten- tion. That is why the ‘Triptolemos Foundation’ has recently promoted the realization of a study, in the process of publication, which aims to give an answer to this issue with the maximum precision possible.
Following the documentonthis matterof the ‘Trip- tolemos Foundation’ we have scrutinized and evalu- ated the impact of the Green Deal from holistic con- ception of a sustainable global food system which is defined in four interrelated axes: 1) availability and accessibility, 2) economy, 3) legislation and regula- tions and 4) knowledge, behaviour and culture. The four axes are aligned with the 17 Sustainable Devel- opment Goals (SDGs)47. The challenges identified in
this article will only be resolved if they are ap- proached holistically as a food system, considering all its variables and not just the economic and envi- ronmental ones. The equilibrium will work, as hap- pens in biological systems, when there is no domi- nance of any of the factors over the rest. If there is dominance of any factor, the stability is terminated. We must act in coordination, with commitment and with a global projection in the four axes to achieve a sustainable and socially balanced global food system. The EU cannot act in isolation. Acting on only one or some of the axes, either out of inter- est or ignorance, unbalances the system, with seri- ous consequences, which, as we can see, this implies. The success of the Green Deal will depend on the proper harmonization of all these elements: this is a
challenge.Article signat per 30 autors/es: José Pío Beltrán, Julio Berbel, Isabel Berdaji, Rodolfo Bernabéu, Carolina Boix Fayos, Ramon Clotet Ballús, Yvonne Colomer Xena, María Dolores del Castillo Bilbao, Xavier Flotats Ripoll, Joan Carles Gil, Mª del Carmen Gómez Guillén, Luís González-Vaqué, Diego S. Intrigliolo, Amaia Iriondo de Hond, Eusebio Jarauta-Bragulat, Abel Mariné, Rosa M. Martin Aranda, Francisco José Morales Navas, Olga Moreno, Luís Navarro, Dionisio Ortíz, Diego Orzáez Calatayud, Ana Palli, Juan Reca, Francesc Reguant, Ignacio Romagosa, Alberto Sanz-Cobeña, Robert Savé Montserrat, José María Sumpsi, Mª Carmen VidalObjectius de Desenvolupament Sostenible::13 - Acció per al ClimaObjectius de Desenvolupament Sostenible::12 - Producció i Consum ResponsablesPostprint (published version
