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Mark Brady. Foto.

Mark Brady

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Is Passive Farming A Problem for Agriculture in the EU?

Författare

  • Mark V. Brady
  • Jordan Hristov
  • Christoph Sahrbacher
  • Torben Söderberg
  • Fredrik Wilhelmsson

Summary, in English

We address a new agricultural policy concern following the decoupling of CAP direct payments in 2005: passive farming, whereby landowners maintain their agricultural area to collect payments without producing commodities. It is claimed that passive farming is hindering agricultural development by 'blocking' access to farmland for expanding farmers. We evaluate the links between the EU's Single Payment Scheme (SPS), passive farming, land use and agricultural development. Following identification of the rational landowners' optimal land-use choice, we evaluate the effects of the SPS using a spatial, agent-based model that simulates farmers' competition for land in a case-study region of Sweden. We show that passive farming does not constrain land from being used in production; on the contrary more land is used than would be the case without the SPS. We conclude that passive farming is not a problem for agriculture, but provides public goods that would otherwise be under provided: preservation of marginal farmland and future food security. However SPS payments on highly productive land inflate land values (capitalisation) and slow structural change, which hinder agricultural development. Consequently CAP goals could be better served by targeting payments on marginal land and phasing out payments to highly productive land.

Avdelning/ar

  • Centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap (CEC)
  • AgriFood Economics Centre, SLU
  • AgriFood Economics Centre, Ekonomihögskolan vid Lunds universitet
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate

Publiceringsår

2017-09

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

632-650

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volym

68

Issue

3

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Wiley-Blackwell

Ämne

  • Other Agricultural Sciences not elsewhere specified
  • Economic Geography

Nyckelord

  • CAP
  • Decoupling
  • Development
  • Fallow
  • Land use
  • Policy
  • Single Payment Scheme

Status

Published

Projekt

  • Rural development through governance of multifunctional agricultural land-use

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0021-857X