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Ullrika Sahlin

Senior lecturer

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Impacts of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy “Greening” Reform on Agricultural Development, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Services

Author

  • Jordan Hristov
  • Yann Clough
  • Ullrika Sahlin
  • Henrik G. Smith
  • Martin Stjernman
  • Ola Olsson
  • Amanda Sahrbacher
  • Mark V. Brady

Summary, in English

The EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has had limited success in mitigating agriculture's environmental degradation. In this paper we simulate the impacts of the 2013 “greening” reform on biodiversity and ecosystem services in environmentally contrasting landscapes. We do this by integrating an agent-based model of structural change with spatial ecological production functions, and show that the reform will likely fail to deliver substantial environmental benefits. Our study implies that greening measures need to be tailored to local conditions and priorities, to generate environmental improvements. Such spatial targeting of measures is though incompatible with the design of a common direct payments scheme.

Department/s

  • Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC)
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
  • MERGE: ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system
  • Biodiversity
  • Lund university sustainability forum
  • Biodiversity and Conservation Science
  • AgriFood Economics Centre, SLU

Publishing year

2020-12-01

Language

English

Pages

716-738

Publication/Series

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy

Volume

42

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Wiley

Topic

  • Environmental Sciences related to Agriculture and Land-use

Keywords

  • agent-based modeling
  • biodiversity
  • CAP reform
  • Ecological Focus Areas (EFA)
  • ecosystem services
  • landscape
  • spatial production functions

Status

Published

Research group

  • Biodiversity and Conservation Science

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2040-5790