A National Food Strategy for Sweden.

This Food Strategy is a national policy document with a multi sectoral approach. The overall objective of the food strategy is a competitive food supply chain that increases overall food production while achieving the relevant national environmental objectives, aiming to generate growth and employment and contribute to sustainable development throughout the country. The Government proposes that the strategy covers three strategic areas. These strategic areas are: 1. Rules and regulations; 2. Consumers and markets; and 3.nowledge and innovation.
Specifically, the Food Strategy seeks to enhance food security. Objective of the Strategic Area 1 is: Rules and regulations should be designed to support the overall objective of a competitive and sustainable food supply chain in which production increases. This should be achieved by means of appropriate taxes and charges, regulatory simplification, a reduced administrative burden and other measures to strengthen competitiveness and profitability.
The Food Strategy helps make agriculture more productive and sustainable. It requires the agricultural sector to undertake ongoing environmental progress. The strategy can assist environmental activity in the agricultural sector by fostering enhanced competitiveness and improved resource efficiency. Continued efforts are needed to make greater use of the opportunities presented by agriculture, forestry and fisheries for action on climate change and to make agricultural production more climate-friendly. The objective for the strategic area ‘Knowledge and innovation’ is to support the knowledge and innovation system so as to contribute to increased productivity and innovation in the food supply chain and the sustainable production and consumption of food. To make it possible to meet the objective of increased food production with the aim of creating employment, growth and sustainable development, the Government believes that the knowledge and innovation system needs to be enhanced so that it can better contribute to increased productivity, innovation and sustainable food production and consumption.
Strategic Area 2 looks at enabling more inclusive and efficient food system. Its objective is: Consumers should have a high degree of confidence in food and be able to make informed and sustainable choices, for example with respect to local and organic production. The market for food should be characterised by efficient competition. Swedish food exports must be given the opportunity to grow so as to meet demand in relevant markets.