Faculty of Life Science, Faculty of Law, Research Unit for German and European Food Law, University of Bayreuth, Kulmbach and Bayreuth, Germany.
Faculty of Life Science, Plant Physiology, University of Bayreuth, Kulmbach and Bayreuth, Germany.
Trends Plant Sci. 2021 Jun;26(6):600-606. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2021.03.012. Epub 2021 Apr 20.
The European Commission's Farm to Fork (F2F) strategy, under the European Green Deal, acknowledges that innovative techniques, including biotechnology, may play a role in increasing sustainability. At the same time, organic farming will be promoted, and at least 25% of the EU's agricultural land shall be under organic farming by 2030. How can both biotechnology and organic farming be developed and promoted simultaneously to contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? We illustrate that achieving the SDGs benefits from the inclusion of recent innovations in biotechnology in organic farming. This requires a change in the law. Otherwise, the planned increase of organic production in the F2F strategy may result in less sustainable, not more sustainable, food systems.
欧盟委员会的“从农场到餐桌”（Farm to Fork，简称 F2F）战略是欧洲绿色协议的一部分，该战略承认创新技术，包括生物技术，可能在提高可持续性方面发挥作用。同时，将推广有机农业，到 2030 年，欧盟至少 25%的农业用地将采用有机农业。如何同时发展和推广生物技术和有机农业，以促进实现可持续发展目标（Sustainable Development Goals，简称 SDGs）？我们表明，在有机农业中纳入生物技术的最新创新可以促进实现可持续发展目标。这需要法律的改变。否则，F2F 战略中计划增加的有机生产可能导致食品系统的可持续性降低，而非提高。
