We must thank our colleague Tania Runge for today’s publication, who recently sent us a publication carried out by IFOAM Organics Europe entitled “Organic in Europe”.

This entity has developed new research that highlights the insufficiency of both State Members and European Union aids and the need to dedicate part of the CAP budget to organic farming in order to achieve the Farm to Fork and Biodiversity Strategy’s objectives of 25% organic land by the year 2030.

Because, according to this study, the European Union should dedicate – from the year 2023 – 3 to 5 times the current amount of the CAP budget to achieve the proposed objectives.

The researchers point out that in order to achieve 25% of organic land in the European Union before the year 2030, it will be necessary for Member States to make more efforts, increasing payment rates per hectare; and those countries with a low level of support for the primary sector should increase their spending by 5 or 6 times if they want to achieve realistic objectives.

Researchers complain about insufficient efforts carried out by the European Union to achieve the objectives, since it should triple its organic surface in the period 2019-2023; increase CAP spending 3-5 times by 2030 and dedicate 9-15% of the CAP budget to organic.