A study published by the Italian think-tank Divulga says that the EU Green Deal strategy will reduce agriculture production overall by 10-30%. The price of beef will increase by 24%; pork by 43%; grain imports will increase by 24%; rapeseed 98%. Italy will export 50% less olive oil and wine, whose price will increase 24-46%.
This is the combined result of the “Farm To Fork” policy and the introduction of the “Nutriscore,” a nutrition rating label based on the British Food Standards Agency nutrient profiling system.
An article in the daily La Verità}, reporting the Divulga study, comments that “The Farm To Fork program … will transform Europe into a garden without farming, outsource the fulfillment of food needs to unhealthy and polluting foreign productions, and move environmental garbage to the rest of the world.” Consequences are already visible: Italian fresh produce exports dropped by 3.15% (8.1% in value) in the first four months of the year according to Fruitimprese.
The article cites a study by the Joint Research Center of the EU which has been classified because of its negative evaluation of the Farm To Fork strategy, the USDA and the Wageningen University as well, which we covered already in the briefing.