Impacts of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy “Greening” reform on agricultural development, biodiversity, and ecosystem services

Artikel

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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy ; ISSN: 2040-5804 ; Volume: 42 ; Year: 2020 ; Issue: 4 ; Pages: 716-738 ; Hoboken, NJ: Wiley

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Landwirtschaft, Veterinärmedizin
• Subject: agent-based modeling ; biodiversity ; CAP reform ; Ecological Focus Areas (EFA) ; ecosystem services ; landscape ; spatial production functions

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Hristov, Jordan ; Clough, Yann ; Sahlin, Ullrika ; Smith, Henrik G. ; Stjernman, Martin ; Olsson, Ola ; Sahrbacher, Amanda ; Brady, Mark V.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Wiley
• (where): Hoboken, NJ
• (when): 2020

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.1002/aepp.13037
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/225659
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET