Agricultural Diversity. Unfolding the Concept in EU Law

The CAP 2023/2027 has included agricultural diversity among its strategic objectives, but there is still unclarity around its content and scope. The article aims to assess its meaning from a legal perspective, explores to what extent the value is already engrained in the CAP 2023-2027, and finally, suggests the conditions that would foster its implementation. Firstly, the article explores how diversity in general is recognised as a value in the EU legal system and to what extent it has been included in the common agricultural policy. Secondly, it unfolds the components of agricultural diversity, which are then adopted for the assessment of Eu agriculture and food law. The article concludes with a comment on the challenges to promotion of agricultural diversity and finally suggests how a right-based approach, which integrates the objective with the legal principle of substantial equality, could be a strategy for effectively supporting its achievement.