Abstract
The third conference will address the mobilization for a " common food policy " between 2016 and 2019, up to the presentation of a report under this title by IPES-Food, the international panel of experts on sustainable food systems, a few months before the European elections in May 2019.
For three years, a series of consultations have been taking place, both within the European institutions and in various European cities, to lay the foundations for sustainable food systems in the European Union, and to call for policies affecting the food environment (agricultural policy, environmental policy, health policy, employment policy, trade policy in particular) to be better aligned with each other, both to avoid contradictions between them, and to identify synergies hitherto absent. The EU's proposal for a " common food policy " is an unprecedented example of how organized civil society and social movements from different backgrounds have put a new issue on the European agenda, highlighting different concerns but converging on the objective of strengthening the sustainability of European policies affecting agriculture and food. It also illustrates how the adoption of a multi-annual " strategy ", enabling the coordination of several sectoral policies and the alignment of several levels of governance - from municipal and regional level to European level, via the level of member states - makes it possible to overcome the inertia of inherited systems, which the previous conference had proposed for diagnosis.
