Faustine Bas-Defossez
Faustine Bas-Defossez is head of agriculture and land management programme at Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) since April 2018. She spent eight years leading one of the largest Federation of Environmental NGOs’ (the European Environmental Bureau – EEB) campaign on the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP), advocating for a more sustainable agriculture and farming across Europe. Before that, she worked for the European Commission Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development on the European Food Aid for the most deprived Program and the public goods delivered by the agriculture sector.

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