Levelling the playing field for European Union agriculture: Does the Common Agricultural Policy impact homogeneously on farm productivity and efficiency?

Quiroga, Sonia; Suárez, Cristina; Fernández-Haddad, Zaira; Philippidis, George

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.07.057

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“…The influence of agricultural subsidies on farm performance in practice has been widely analysed, mainly in terms of crop production (Quiroga et al, 2017;Kumbhakar and Lien, 2010). However, there is little research on the efficiency of the complex support from the rural development programmes to forestry (e.g., Jarský et al, 2014, Uthes et al, 2017.…”

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What influences European private forest owners' affinity for subsidies?

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Forest Policy and Economics

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This study analyses the linkages between private forest owners' perceptions of forest management, and their affinity for subsidies, in a range of European countries. Society increasingly requires the provision of ecosystem services from forests, but the willingness of forest owners to redirect management goals from wood production to the provision of public goods is crucial for sustaining ecosystem services. EU incentives in the forestry sector are still mainly oriented towards an anthropocentric vision of forest management. Forest owners and managers are diverse, and although many efforts have been made to understand the role of forest subsidies in private forest management, it is still necessary to analyse the different perspectives on forest subsidies with a regional comparative approach. This paper explores European private forest owners' affinity for subsidiesthrough survey data at European leveland estimates an ordered probit model to (i) analyse how private forest owners in Europe respond to subsidies in forestry, including regional differences in terms of affinity for subsidies, (ii) characterise the factors that influence these responses and (iii) discuss lessons learned related to forest owners' attitudes on subsidies and the implications for introducing similar kind of incentives such as payments for ecosystem services. Simulations were conducted to examine the potential effects of changes in property fragmentation or the time allotted to forest activities. Forest owners with an utilitarian view of forest management, bigger forest holdings, full or part-time farmers and forest owners from East Europe are most in favour of forest subsidies. Property fragmentation and absenteeism decreases affinity for subsidies.

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What influences European private forest owners' affinity for subsidies?

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“…On the other hand, land abandonment (in the absence of effective policies for managing abandoned land) can have severe impacts on biodiversity, both in terms of reducing habitat or habitat quality for indigenous species and also allowing invasive species to flourish, as well as increasing fire frequency and intensity, reducing water provision, and loss of cultural and amenity value (Rey Benayas, Nicolau and Schulz, 2007 [178]; MacDonald et al, 2000 [179]; Koshida and Katayama, 2018[65]). In a global review of 276 published studies on the issue, Queiroz et al (2014 [180]) find that "countries in Eurasia and the New World reported mainly negative and positive effects of farmland abandonment on biodiversity, respectively". In a statistical meta-analysis of studies considering impacts of rice field abandonment on biodiversity in Japan, Koshida and Katayama (2018[65]) found that biodiversity impacts at local scales differed according to landscape type and according to the taxa considered, but that on average rice field abandonment has negative biodiversity impacts.…”

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“…While further research is needed to establish the most cost-effective policy options for managing land where agricultural activity is declining or ceasing, 52 researchers generally agree that positive policy approaches are needed, which either view land abandonment as an opportunity for habitat restoration and species reintroduction (e.g. (Merckx and Pereira, 2015[39]; Queiroz et al, 2014 [180]), or which incentivise farmers to maintain landscapes and produce environmental goods (the "ecosystem services" approach) (MacDonald et al, 2000 [179]). Taking into account the potential for both positive environmental impacts and negative environmental and socio-economic impacts of contraction of agricultural land, the reviewed literature suggests that in addition to carefully considering how agricultural policies affect land abandonment trends, policymakers may also need to be more pro-active about managing land use transitions resulting from specific policies or from policy change.…”

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Impacts of agricultural policies on productivity and sustainability performance in agriculture: A literature review

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2020

OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers

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This paper is published on the responsibility of the Secretary General of the OECD. The opinions expressed and the arguments employed herein do not necessarily reflect the official views of OECD countries. The statistical data for Israel are supplied by and under the responsibility of the relevant Israeli authorities. The use of such data by the OECD is without prejudice to the status of the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and Israeli settlements in the West Bank under the terms of international law.

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“…There has been evidence of deficiencies of EU financial mechanisms from the perspective of economic convergence [10] showing capital misallocation as one of obstacles for the convergence process within the EU. Barret [11] argued that economic convergence process in the EU is behind the schedule due to deficient in democratic legitimacy of its management mechanisms, that is especially felt in agriculture [12].…”

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In a Search for Equity: Do Direct Payments under the Common Agricultural Policy Induce Convergence in the European Union?

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The European Union (EU) is an integrated alliance of equally treated Member States sharing mutual values, legal principles and markets. Close cooperation, deep integration and convergence are the major priorities for the EU. Anyway, these principles are not always reflected in the EU-wide policies which are implemented through financial support mechanisms. The direct payments financial support mechanism under the Common Agricultural Policy, the main instrument for promoting convergence in development of Member States’ agricultural sectors and rural sustainability, faces critique for failing to meet its objectives. One of the major deficiencies of the direct payments scheme is that it allocates more resources to already developed agricultural sectors of the older Member States and less resources to developing ones thus increasing the divergence among the Member States. The aim of this paper is to suggest new mechanisms for direct payment funds redistribution across the EU Member States which are based on the methodological principles that would more precisely correspond to the aims of convergence, transparency and fair redistribution. The results show that, regardless of the method chosen (to support more or less effective agricultural sectors of EU Member States), the proposed methodology lowers differences in direct payment rates among the EU Member States by two-fold. This ensures correspondence to the goal of convergence within the EU.

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Levelling the playing field for European Union agriculture: Does the Common Agricultural Policy impact homogeneously on farm productivity and efficiency?

Cited by 42 publications

References 13 publications

What influences European private forest owners' affinity for subsidies?

What influences European private forest owners' affinity for subsidies?

Impacts of agricultural policies on productivity and sustainability performance in agriculture: A literature review

In a Search for Equity: Do Direct Payments under the Common Agricultural Policy Induce Convergence in the European Union?

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