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Mark Brady. Foto.

Mark Brady

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Mark Brady. Foto.

Impacts of decoupled agricultural support on farm structure, biodiversity and landscape mosaic : Some EU results

Författare

  • Mark Brady
  • Konrad Kellermann
  • Christoph Sahrbacher
  • Ladislav Jelinek

Summary, in English

The decoupling of direct payments from production represents a substantial reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Farmers are no longer required to produce commodities to be entitled to support but only to keep land in Good Environmental and Agricultural Condition. If output declines as a result, there is concern that landscape services produced jointly with commodities will also decline. The aim of this paper is to assess the long-term effects of the 2003 reform on farm structure, landscape mosaic and biodiversity for a sample of EU regions. Impacts are quantified using a spatial agent-based modelling approach by simulating agricultural development with links to indicators of landscape value. Our results demonstrate that eliminating the link between support payments and production has possible negative consequences for the landscape, but only under particular circumstances. It is shown that these effects could be offset by strengthening (Pillar II) agri-environmental schemes. Further the single payment scheme results in higher land rental prices which reduces its ability to achieve its goal of providing income security for farmers. Implications of these results for the direction of continued CAP reform are discussed.

Publiceringsår

2009

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

563-585

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volym

60

Issue

3

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Wiley-Blackwell

Nyckelord

  • Biodiversity
  • Common Agricultural Policy decoupling
  • Landscape mosaic
  • Modelling
  • Policy

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0021-857X