Published February 14, 2020 | Version Preprint of the paper (first submission)
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Action needed for the EU Common Agricultural Policy to address sustainability challenges (Preprint version)

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  • 1. 1) German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103 Leipzig, Germany 2) Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany 3) University of Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
  • 2. 1) German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103 Leipzig, Germany 2) Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany 4) Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Institute of Biodiversity, Dornburger Straße 159, 07743 Jena, Germany
  • 3. 5) Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Große Steinstraße 73, 06108 Halle/S., Germany, 1) German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
  • 4. 6) Thünen Institute of Biodiversity, Bundesallee 64, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany
  • 5. 1) German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103 Leipzig, Germany 3) University of Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
  • 6. 7) Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Thaer Institute for Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Agricultural and Food Policy Group, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany
  • 7. 8) Scientists for Future, Berlin, Germany
  • 8. 2) Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany 5) Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Große Steinstraße 73, 06108 Halle/S., Germany
  • 9. 9) University of Helsinki, Department of Agricultural Sciences and Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science, HELSUS, P.O. Box 27, FI-00014, Helsinki, Finland
  • 10. 10) CIBIO-InBIO, University of Porto, Campus Agrario de Vairao, 4485-601, Vairao, Portugal
  • 11. 2) Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
  • 12. 11) CIBIO-InBIO, University of Lisbon, Institute of Agronomy, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017 Lisbon, Portugal
  • 13. 12) Institute for rural Development Research, Kurfürstenstr. 49, 60486 Frankfurt a. M., Germany
  • 14. 13) Institute for Agroecology and Biodiversity (IFAB), Boecklinstr. 27, 68163 Mannheim, Germany
  • 15. 1) German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
  • 16. 14) Thünen-Institute for Rural Studies; Bundesallee 64, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany.
  • 17. 15) University of Innsbruck, Institute of Geography, Innrain 52f, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
  • 18. 16) University of Vienna, Division of Conservation Biology, Vegetation and Landscape Ecology, 1030 Vienna, Austria.
  • 19. 2) Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany 17) Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Department for Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5, 37073 Göttingen
  • 20. 14) Thünen-Institute for Rural Studies; Bundesallee 64, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany. 17) Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Department for Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5, 37073 Göttingen

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Making agriculture sustainable is a global challenge. In the European Union (EU), the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is failing with respect to biodiversity, climate, soil, land degradation as well as socio-economic challenges especially in rural areas. The European Commission’s proposal for a CAP post-2020 allows Member States to choose low-ambition implementation. With a new Parliament and Commission in place, the reform process has now restarted. It is therefore time to act on urgent challenges and address citizens’ demands for sustainable agriculture, using the full breadth of available scientific evidence and knowledge. Concerned about attempts to dilute the environmental ambition of the future CAP, we call on the European Parliament, the EU’s Member States and the European Commission to adopt ten urgent action points for delivering sustainable food production, biodiversity conservation, and climate mitigation towards an evidence-based, future-proof European agriculture.

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Notes

This version of the paper has been made publically available for signatories to support, from 4.11.2019 until 19.2.2020. The final version is available as a paper in People and Nature.

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