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Need for strategies to promote local food production and agriculture

Need for strategies to promote local food production and agriculture

3.6.2025

Priority question for written answer P-002223/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Rosa Serrano Sierra (S&D)

Rural communities in the European Union manage natural resources, mitigate climate change and ensure our food production and security of supply. Our regions are drivers of progress, but they face serious and permanent challenges, such as depopulation, the price crisis in the agricultural sector or generational renewal. This is why the European Commission recognises the importance of supporting EU farming communities.

Despite this, some regional authorities prioritise the economic criterion in the public procurement of food services - such as in the kitchen canteens - without taking into account proximity or sustainability criteria. In doing so, they act to the detriment of small-scale economies that favour more environmentally and community-friendly local production.

Bearing in mind that the European Commission confirms in its 'vision for the future of agriculture and food production' that a fair and competitive food system must be created with affordable and sustainable food for all, I would like to ask the following questions:

  • 1.Does the Commission consider it important to promote local food production and agriculture?
  • 2.Does the Commission believe that sustainability, seasonality of products and health criteria should be taken into account in public procurement?

Submitted: 3.6.2025

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