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Food Is Not Just Food. It Is Infrastructure — and Europe’s Next Soft Power.

Food is often treated as something “natural,” timeless, outside politics. In reality, today’s food system is one of the most engineered infrastructures on Earth — shaped by decades of policy choices, subsidies, logistics, and industrial shortcuts.

That system delivered efficiency and scale.
It also exhausted soils, destabilized ecosystems, and pushed resource use beyond planetary limits.
The good news is this: systems that were designed can be redesigned.

And today, more than ever, Europe has both the need and the tools to do exactly that.

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