EIT Food welcomes the Commission’s Vision for European agri-food systems by 2040 and its emphasis on ensuring a fair, competitive, resilient and sustainable sector that leverages the transformative power of research, knowledge, skills and innovation.
EIT Food is the EU’s leading food innovation initiative. As a dynamic public-private partnership (PPP) dedicated to agri-food innovation, EIT Food sparks a network of over 200 public and private partners, spanning businesses, startups, academia, regional authorities, and more – and actively engages even more actors, including farmers and citizens. Together, we are uniquely positioned to foster collaboration to build a future-fit European food system. Our mission is to accelerate innovation toward a more sustainable, healthy, trusted, and resilient food system.
Looking towards 2040, public-private partnerships will be crucial to enabling policy objectives and mobilising public and private capital, accelerating innovation and skills, and bringing innovative solutions to scale with concrete impact on value chain uptake. EIT Food’s established programmes and expertise in these fields enable it to provide crucial support in making the most of innovation, both technologic (notably biotechnology or precision farming) and non (such as models of sustainable agriculture alternative to the currently prevailing extractive practices with high input use).
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