Public funding for public goods: A post-Brexit perspective on principles for agricultural policy

Bateman, Ian J.; Balmford, Ben

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.08.022

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“…Both the 25YEP and the Agricultural Bill support this ‘public monies for public goods’ approach, based around a suite of public goods primarily focused on ‘environmental enhancement’ (HM Government, ; House of Commons, ). Such an approach to future land management could be designed around a payment for ecosystem services model (Bateman & Balmford, ) and a Results‐based Agri‐Environment Payment Schemes where farmers are paid for producing goods which benefit nature is currently being trialled (see above). However, such a model would need to ensure compliance with WTO rules and be given sufficient and secure levels of funding.…”

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confidence: 99%

Making Brexit work for the environment and livelihoods: Delivering a stakeholder informed vision for agriculture and fisheries

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1. The decision of the UK to leave the EU has far-reaching, and often shared, implications for agriculture and fisheries. To ensure the future sustainability of the UK's agricultural and fisheries systems, we argue that it is essential to grasp the opportunity that Brexit is providing to develop integrated policies that improve the management and protection of the natural environments, upon which these industries rely.2. This article advances a stakeholder informed vision of the future design of UK agriculture and fisheries policies. We assess how currently emerging UK policy will need to be adapted in order to implement this vision. Our starting point is that Brexit provides the opportunity to redesign current unsustainable practices and can, in principle, deliver a sustainable future for agriculture and fisheries.3. Underpinning policies with an ecosystem approach, explicit inclusion of public goods provision and social welfare equity were found to be key provisions for environmental, agricultural and fishery sustainability. Recognition of the needs of, and innovative practices in, the devolved UK nations is also required as the new policy and regulatory landscape is established. 4. Achieving the proposed vision will necessitate drawing on best practice and creating more coherent and integrated food, environment and rural and coastal economic policies. Our findings demonstrate that "bottom-up" and co-production approaches will be key to the development of more environmentally sustainable agriculture and fisheries policies to underpin prosperous livelihoods. 5. However, delivering this vision will involve overcoming significant challenges. The current uncertainty over the nature and timing of the UK's Brexit agreement hinders forward planning and investment while diverting attention away from further in-depth consideration of environmental sustainability. In the face of this uncertainty, much of the UK's new policy on the environment, agriculture and fisheries | 443 People and Nature STEWART ET Al.

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“…In spite of the aforementioned measures, budget allocated for the CAP is to shrink. Such a perspective is being discussed by a wide range of agricultural economics scholars, such as: Boulanger Bateman & Balmford (2018). There have been different estimates of decrease in the CAP budget following the Brexit.…”

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Brexit and EU Common Agricultural Policy: The possible consequences for Lithuania

Volkov¹,

Baležentis²,

Morkūnas³

et al. 2019

Economics &Amp; Sociology

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This paper examines the possible Brexit scenarios and their impacts on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union (EU) with particular focus on Lithuania. The paper outlines the scientific discourse on the imminent modifications of the CAP after the Brexit along with changes in the EU budget. The paper was prepared during the beginning of Brexit negotiations, with withdrawal terms not being publicly disclosed. Thus, the most likely assumptions have been accepted in order to model the scenarios. The possible effects of Brexit on the agriculture of the small EU Member States are discussed taking the case of Lithuania as an example. The empirical analysis showed that, in the case of three different Brexitinduced CAP modifications, Lithuanian agricultural sector may lose 1% to 20% of financial support under the CAP direct payment mechanism. The corresponding loss under these scenarios is quantified for agricultural sectors of all the EU Member States.

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“…Aid for investment is to replace basic income payments, even though many farms, driven by tax regimes, are already overcapitalised (Guan et al, 2009). The balance of policy will shift to support for ecosystem services production, despite notorious difficulties in outcome measurement (Bateman and Balmford, 2018). The nonagricultural part of rural economic activity, so often an afterthought in the implementation of the EU CAP, appears to have been forgotten completely.…”

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Rural development in Wales: looking backwards, looking forwards

Midmore¹

2018

Welsh Economic Review

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Public funding for public goods: A post-Brexit perspective on principles for agricultural policy

Cited by 92 publications

References 38 publications

Making Brexit work for the environment and livelihoods: Delivering a stakeholder informed vision for agriculture and fisheries

Making Brexit work for the environment and livelihoods: Delivering a stakeholder informed vision for agriculture and fisheries

Brexit and EU Common Agricultural Policy: The possible consequences for Lithuania

Rural development in Wales: looking backwards, looking forwards

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