Roadmap for transformative agriculture: From research through policy towards a

Instead of making agriculture ‘greener’, the CAP has actually encouraged its specialisation, leading to further intensification and consolidation of small family farms and parcels, reducing the diversity of practices at the landscape scale and contributing to the accelerated erosion of farmland biodiversity (Batáry et al., 2015; European Commission, 2019; Kindvall et al., 2022; Lefebvre et al., 20. [...] The IPBES plenary, for example, initiated the undertaking of the “Thematic assess- ment of the underlying causes of biodiversity loss, and the determinants of transformative change and options for achieving the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity” within its 2019–2030 work programme. [...] These commitments and plans are, however, questioned at the highest political and economic levels, which risks prolonging the period of biodi- versity decline and delaying the bending of the curve of its loss, ultimately jeopardising the achievement of the desired goals (Leadley et al., 2022; Pe’er et al., 2023). [...] Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, The Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 Bringing nature back into our lives. [...] Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, The Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions a Farm to Fork Strategy for a fair, healthy and envir- onmentally-friendly food system.