Impacts of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy “Greening” Reform on Agricultural Development, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Services
(2020) In Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 42(4). p.716-738- Abstract
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.
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- author
- Hristov, Jordan LU ; Clough, Yann LU ; Sahlin, Ullrika LU ; Smith, Henrik G. LU ; Stjernman, Martin LU ; Olsson, Ola LU ; Sahrbacher, Amanda and Brady, Mark V. LU
- organization
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- 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 (research group)
- AgriFood Economics Centre, SLU
- publishing date
- 2020-12-01
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- agent-based modeling, biodiversity, CAP reform, Ecological Focus Areas (EFA), ecosystem services, landscape, spatial production functions
- in
- Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
- volume
- 42
- issue
- 4
- pages
- 716 - 738
- publisher
- Wiley
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85088439101
- ISSN
- 2040-5790
- DOI
- 10.1002/aepp.13037
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- Funding Information: We gratefully acknowledge funding from the MULTAGRI project within the RURAGRI ERA‐NET (EU/FP7) framework and the FORMAS project “Predicting policy impact on biodiversity ‐ effects of the Common Agricultural Policy on farmland birds” (Grant nr 226‐2013‐1204) for financing this research. We also greatly appreciate comments from coeditor Daniel Petrolia and three anonymous referees that helped to improve the manuscript. The paper is a contribution to the strategic research area Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing Climate, BECC. Funding Information: We gratefully acknowledge funding from the MULTAGRI project within the RURAGRI ERA-NET (EU/FP7) framework and the FORMAS project ?Predicting policy impact on biodiversity - effects of the Common Agricultural Policy on farmland birds? (Grant nr 226-2013-1204) for financing this research. We also greatly appreciate comments from coeditor Daniel Petrolia and three anonymous referees that helped to improve the manuscript. The paper is a contribution to the strategic research area Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing Climate, BECC. Publisher Copyright: © 2020 The Authors. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Agricultural & Applied Economics Association. Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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