The European Commission has produced a Staff Working Document (SWD) in which the main factors influencing availability and access to food are addressed.
The analysis, which serves as a blueprint to shape Commission’s future legislative activity, identifies the pressures that food systems in Europe are facing, assessing the key drivers affecting food security from both the supply and demand sides.
Seven main categories of drivers that affect the ability of food systems to deliver healthy and sustainable diets for all are described: biophysical and environmental drivers; research and innovation, and technology; economic and market drivers; food value chain performance; political and institutional drivers; socio-cultural drivers, and demographic drivers, which interact with each other in a multifaceted across the system.
Biowaste, together with compost and digestate also features in this analysis. The proper treatment of the organic waste stream is mentioned as a possible remediation measure for environmental pollution and soil degradation, enriching the soil with organic matters and closing nutrient cycles, whilst representing a solution against the environmental impacts associated with the excessive utilisation of mineral fertilisers on agricultural land. Recycled organic waste soil improvers and fertilisers are deemed as ‘promising avenues’ for the green transition of the fertilisers industry in the EU long-term vision, to wean itself off imported gas and avoid putting at risk food security.
Here you can find the full document.