EU Food System Monitoring Dashboard

At the heart of the European Green Deal, the Farm to Fork Strategy sets the EU context of sustainable food systems, recognising the inextricable links between healthy people, healthy societies and a healthy planet. Communication COM(2020) 381 final announced that the Commission will monitor the transition to a sustainable food system so that it operates within the planetary boundaries, including progress on the targets and overall reduction of the environmental and climate footprint of the EU food system. Considering the key role of food for the EU's economy and population, the EU food systems monitoring tool should assess the impact of all actions related to food system sustainability on competitiveness, the environment and health in the EU. The European Commission designed a framework that builds on a set of environmental, economic and social (including health) indicators. Driven by the reuse principle, more than 300 indicators of underpinning policies have been screened, documented and assessed for their fitness for purpose and data quality. To boost data management and user-friendly communication, an information system and a communication tool - this EU food system monitoring dashboard - was developed.