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It is the first time in the history of EU food law that the union has addressed food sustainability in a comprehensive manner, from primary production to the consumer. The F2F Strategy aims to make the EU food system fair, healthy and environmentally friendly, and has been hailed as a cornerstone of the European Green Deal under the 2019–2024 European Commission. We conclude that the strategy’s potential for fostering a genuine change of EU food systems governance will largely depend on the resolution of these challenges and the ability of the EU’s leadership to continue political momentum - and this will be further challenged by the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. From governance and legal perspectives, we identify four major challenges that will determine whether the F2F Strategy will truly be a game-changer: the unresolved ambiguity of food sustainability, the discrepancy between policy objectives and the specific legal actions proposed, the vulnerable institutional embedding within the European Commission, and limited coordination with the EU’s Member States. However, the strategy’s success will ultimately depend on its implementation in the very near future. Published in May 2020, it represents a first step towards genuine food systems governance 2 and seems well timed to address some of the most pressing environmental and public health concerns that European society faces.
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The European Union (EU)’s new Farm to Fork (F2F) Strategy 1 is lauded as a major advance in European food policymaking.