Developed by the first French Interministerial Committee for Biodiversity (CIB), the new Government’s Biodiversity Plan includes six major focuses with a total of some 90 measures. In order to implement the plan’s measures, the Ministry of Ecological and Inclusive Transition will be mobilizing a further 600 million Euros over 4 years. Several measures are directly linked with the objectives of the EU LIFE Food & Biodiversity.
One objective is the "zero net artificialisation of soils" and a mobilization of 150 million by 2021 (11th program of water agency) to pay farmers for implementation of actions that provide environmental services. In focus 2 "Built an economy without pollution and low impact on biodiversity", an objective is dedicated to agriculture. Development of the High Environmental certification (15 000 certified farms in 2022 and 50 000 in 2030) and integration of efficient criteria to promote biodiversity in quality and origin specifications (PDO, Label Rouge,…) are mentioned. An objective is also dedicated to soil biodiversity preservation with the financement of research and development.
In the next CAP, France will negociate to pay farmers that go beyong the 5 % of ecological focus area in the UAA. Moreover, companies are encouraged to work on a biodiversity footprint. Government’s Biodiversity plan go in the right direction even though proposals for the new CAP should be more ambitious regarding agroecological infrastructures quality. For agrobiodiversity issues, results depend a lot of the Ecophyto plan (plan for the reduction of phytosanitary product use).