Farm to fork strategy : Animal welfare, EU trade policy, and public participation

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Molitorisová, Alexandra ; Burke, Ciarán:
Farm to fork strategy : Animal welfare, EU trade policy, and public participation.
In: Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. Vol. 45 (2023) Issue 2 . - pp. 881-910.
ISSN 2040-5804
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13326

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Abstract This article presents an analysis of the Farm to Fork Strategy (F2F Strategy) on animal welfare matters though the lens of EU trade policy and public participation. It shows that the mix of cooperation tools contained in bilateral agreements with trade components support in aggregate the Strategy's actions on animal welfare. However, individual bilateral agreements may need to be renegotiated and modernised to include more powerful cooperation tools to achieve sustainable food systems through the adoption and implementation of animal welfare standards. One way of achieving this is to negotiate the inclusion of sustainable food systems chapters that highlight the linkages between animal welfare, agriculture, sustainability, climate, environment, and public health. However, such robust chapters should be monitored and enforced in a correspondingly robust manner, for example, by restructuring chapters' committees and work groups. The article concludes that enhanced public participation, both at the level of legislative proposals (public consultations) and at the level of trade policy (domestic advisory groups, standardisation committees), may better support achieving policy objectves of animal welfare measures of the F2F Strategy.

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Item Type:	Article in a journal
Refereed:	Yes
Keywords:	animal welfare; EU trade; public consultations; Farm to fork strategy
Institutions of the University:	Faculties > Faculty of Life Sciences: Food, Nutrition and Health > Chair Food Law > Chair Food Law - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Kai Purnhagen Faculties Faculties > Faculty of Life Sciences: Food, Nutrition and Health Faculties > Faculty of Life Sciences: Food, Nutrition and Health > Chair Food Law
Result of work at the UBT:	Yes
DDC Subjects:	300 Social sciences > 340 Law 500 Science > 500 Natural sciences 500 Science > 570 Life sciences, biology
Date Deposited:	22 Jul 2023 21:00
Last Modified:	24 Jul 2023 05:47
URI:	https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/86269