The 2003 Fischler Reform

Cunha, Arlindo; Swinbank, Alan

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199591572.003.0007

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“…Still, these reforms were insufficient to stave WTO criticism of remaining trade distortions and citizens' environmental concerns (Phelps 2007). This paved the way to the most radical reform to date, the Mid-Term Review or 2003 Reform, which decoupled the majority of direct payments from production (Cunha and Swinbank 2011). Commencing in 2005, the EU's farmers have not been required to produce agricultural commodities to receive these direct payments that are based on their agricultural area; as long as they keep their land in "good agricultural and environmental condition," which is intended to avoid the abandonment of agricultural land.…”

Section: Eu's Common Agricultural Policy (Cap)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Hristov¹,

Clough²,

Sahlin³

et al. 2020

Applied Eco Perspectives Pol

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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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Section: Eu's Common Agricultural Policy (Cap)mentioning

confidence: 99%