The EU budget battle: Assessing the trade and welfare impacts of CAP budgetary reform

Boulanger, Pierre; Philippidis, George

doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2015.01.004

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“…CAP has been evolving for 50 years from a simple production subsidy into a system which supports pro-environmental and prosocial farming as well as the non-productive functions of farms (Boulanger and Philippidis, 2015). Since 2014, new rules regarding direct payments to farmers have been applied throughout Poland and other EU countries.…”

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Farmer rationality and the adoption of greening practices in Poland

Świtek

Sawińska

2017

Sci. agric. (Piracicaba, Braz.)

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Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform in the European Union introduced a new element: greening. The aim of greening is to support the environment and create non-productive value in agriculture. The main element of greening is the Ecological Focus Area (EFA) meaning that a portion of farmland area has to be designed for environmental purposes. This article consists of an evaluatation of greening and its elements in the first year CAP reform has come into force. Surveys were used as a tool to gather information about farm characteristics, ways to meet greening requirements as well as the opinions of farmers as to changes in direct subsidies and greening obligations. The research was conducted in 2015 directly interviewing 290 farmers from the whole of Poland. The farmers interviewed lived in different parts of the country and had different size farms. Data was prepared with the use of spreadsheets and were analysed using the R statistical program and the "gmodel" and "vcd" statistical packages were used during the calculations. Polish farmers are against greening. Greening does not significantly change the way farmers run their farms. They choose the cheapest options of EFA which are usually not the best for the environment. Furthermore, farmers have to bear the cost of introducing the new elements themselves. Despite a high number of environmental and agricultural advantages offered by new farming methods, crop rotation and after-crop sowing duty, CAP reform is assessed in a negative light. As a result of negative opinions held by farmers due to the lack of subsidies, farmers may not continue greening practices in the future.

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Farmer rationality and the adoption of greening practices in Poland

Świtek

Sawińska

2017

Sci. agric. (Piracicaba, Braz.)

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“…This means that national and regional differences should be taken into considerations. As Boulanger and Philippidis (2015) emphasised, "the 2013 CAP reform seeks to further strengthen the relation between agricultural production and environmental responsibility by explicitly linking up to 30% of the direct payments envelope to greening practices". Table 1 presents common areas that may be realised under two reformed Pillars and indicates whether a regional approach has been included.…”

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The impact of the support instruments of the Common Agricultural Policy on economic and financial stability of farms in EU countries

Soliwoda¹

2016

Folia Oeconomica

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EU subsidies influence the economic and financial situation of farms through several complex channels, although their economic and financial impact may be observed with a delay. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of selected support instruments of the Common Agricultural Policy, CAP (including direct payments and subsidies from Pillar 2) on economic and financial stability (respectively, the level of net farm income and debt/asset ratio) of farms in EU countries at regional level. The research goals included: (1) to present differences in the level and the structure of instruments of CAP support (excluding investment subsidies) at the level of member states; (2) to determine significance, strength and direction of the relationship between amounts of subsidies received and selected indicators of economic and financial stability of farms. The Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) database provided secondary data for the study. The dynamics of changes was analyzed for years 2007 and 2012. At the country level, the share of subsidies related to rural development programs gradually increased during the years 2007–2012. A weighted regression approach with correction of heteroscedasticity (a total of four models) was employed separately for the 2007 and 2012 (based on data from the FADN regions). Although subsidies (excluding for investment) under the CAP influenced quite strongly the level of agricultural income, the impact of subsidies on the financial stability was ambiguous. This may lead to the refinement of regional approach in relation to the selection of support instruments and the determination of the amounts of support provided under the CAP.

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“…Modelling of the CAP [15] accounts for To this database, an advanced recursive dynamic variant of the GTAP model, known as the Modular Applied GeNeral Equilibrium Tool (MAGNET) [13] is calibrated. The MAGNET model provides flexibility to choose from a list of non-standard modules to address the most pertinent aspects of the study at hand.…”

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Is ‘Bio-Based’ Activity a Panacea for Sustainable Competitive Growth?

2016

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Taking a European Union focus, this paper explicitly models competing uses of biomass to quantify its contribution toward a sustainable low carbon model of economic growth. To this end, a state-of-the-art multisector multiregion modelling tool is combined with a specially developed bio-based variant of a well-known global database. Employing a decomposition method of the market drivers and classifying alternative future pathways, the aim is to understand how public policies can influence the apparent trade-off between the goals of lower carbon economic growth, environmental preservation and sustainable biomass usage. Results reveal that in targeting specific societal goals public policy can be effective, although this can lead to broader economic issues of resource inefficiency and even direct policy conflicts.

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The EU budget battle: Assessing the trade and welfare impacts of CAP budgetary reform

Cited by 48 publications

References 8 publications

Farmer rationality and the adoption of greening practices in Poland

Farmer rationality and the adoption of greening practices in Poland

The impact of the support instruments of the Common Agricultural Policy on economic and financial stability of farms in EU countries

Is ‘Bio-Based’ Activity a Panacea for Sustainable Competitive Growth?

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