OPEN LETTER

The document is an open letter to the European Commission calling for the timely publication of the Farm to Fork and Biodiversity Strategies. The signatories argue that the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the vulnerabilities of current globalised food systems, including dependency on migrant labour and the risks of intensive animal farming, thereby increasing the urgency for a forward-looking Common Food Policy.

• The signatories urge the European Commission to publish the Farm to Fork strategy by the end of April 2020, arguing that simultaneous publication with the Biodiversity Strategy would create a "strong, united and coherent environmental, climate, public health and social agenda".
• The Covid-19 pandemic is cited as evidence of the failures of current globalised food systems, specifically highlighting long specialised chains, poor working conditions for foreign and migrant workers, and the difficulties small-scale producers face in accessing local markets.
• The document links the emergence of zoonotic diseases to intensive animal farming and notes that people with diet-related pre-existing health conditions showed reduced resilience to infection during the pandemic.

APA

ClientEarth (2020). OPEN LETTER. https://www.clientearth.org/media/5u2nyccc/2020-04-15-ngos-letter-to-the-european-commission-on-the-importance-of-publishing-the-farm-to-fork-strategy-without-further-delays-coll-en.pdf

Chicago

ClientEarth. OPEN LETTER. 2020. https://www.clientearth.org/media/5u2nyccc/2020-04-15-ngos-letter-to-the-european-commission-on-the-importance-of-publishing-the-farm-to-fork-strategy-without-further-delays-coll-en.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{clientearth2020open, author = {{ClientEarth}}, title = {{OPEN LETTER}}, publisher = {ClientEarth}, year = {2020}, month = apr, url = {https://www.clientearth.org/media/5u2nyccc/2020-04-15-ngos-letter-to-the-european-commission-on-the-importance-of-publishing-the-farm-to-fork-strategy-without-further-delays-coll-en.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }