Joint letter to the EU Commission to reconsider the loosening of the CAP’s green architecture

We have written to the EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to abandon plans to dismantle the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)'s green architecture and come forward with a systemic approach to respond to the diversity of farmers' protests and problems, embracing socio-economic, environmental, and governance flaws of European agri-food and rural systems.

When formulating policy options, we call on the EU Commission to adopt an evidence-based and coherent approach in line with the EU’s commitments on biodiversity and climate change, as well as the objectives set out in the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 and the Farm to Fork Strategy derived from the European Green Deal.

We strongly believe that the Commission´s political action should follow the evidence that they themselves collected and presented on how biodiversity and agriculture are interrelated.

Biodiversity relies on agriculture, agriculture relies on biodiversity.