Mark Brady
Policy officer
Impacts of the CAP’s environmental policy instruments on farm structures, agricultural incomes and public goods
Author
Summary, in English
We examined farmers’ costs of providing public goods under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the expected impacts of the 2015 CAP “greening” reform on regional development and provisioning of public goods. Less than half of CAP spending Before the reform was justifiable in terms of the delivery of specific public goods; and predicted benefits from greening are low. We recommend re-allocating support to targeted and landscape-scale payments, better matching the financing of public goods with the beneficiaries and re-considering greening.
Department/s
- Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC)
- BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
- AgriFood Economics Centre, SLU
Publishing year
2016
Language
English
Document type
Other
Topic
- Ecology
- Agricultural Science, Forestry and Fisheries
- Environmental Sciences
Status
Published
Project
- Rural development through governance of multifunctional agricultural land-use