Our Vision is a world where everybody can access and enjoy sustainable, safe and healthy food, with trust and fairness from farm to fork. Our Mission is to catalyze the transformation of how food is produced and valued by European society, solving the biggest innovation challenges through trusted industry, education and research partners working with informed and engaged citizens. Our strategy is closely aligned with EU Farm to Fork Strategy. In light of our Vision and Mission, we fully support the aspirational objectives of the EU Code of Conduct and commit to continued innovation capacity building in our projects with EIT Food partners and in our work with other food system actors.

Commitments by aspirational objectives:

We have identified six Focus Areas - spanning across the entire food value chain - that are strongly aligned with the EU Code of Conduct’s aspirational objectives and have high potential to deliver tangible, long-lasting change within the food system (see image below).

Aspirational objective 1: Healthy, balanced, and sustainable diets for all European consumers, thereby contributing to: 

1) Reversing malnutrition and diet-related noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in the EU. 

2) Reducing the environmental footprint of food consumption by 2030.

With the following aspirational targets:

a) Improved food consumption patterns in the EU.

b) A food environment that makes it easier to choose healthy and sustainable diets.

Aspirational objective 4: An optimised circular and resource-efficient food chain in Europe

With the following aspirational targets:

a) Improved resource efficiency within own operations, contributing to sustainable, efficient use and management of energy and natural resources in operations by 2030. 

b) Improved sustainability of food and drink packaging, striving for all packaging towards circularity by 2030.

Aspirational objective 6: Sustainable value creation in the European food supply chain through partnership

With the following aspirational targets:

a) Improved resilience and competitiveness of companies operating at any point along the food value chain by 2030.

b) Continued progress towards sustainable production, contributing to sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources by 2030 and improved animal welfare.

Aspirational objective 7: Sustainable sourcing in food supply chains

With the following aspirational targets:

a) Transformed commodity supply chains that do not contribute to deforestation, forest degradation, and destruction of natural habitat and which preserve and protect high-value ecosystems and biodiversity.

b) Improved social performance in (global) food supply chains.

Full detail of the pledge in the provided attachment.