To what extent does the European common agricultural policy affect key landscape determinants of biodiversity?

Pardo, Adara; Rolo, Víctor; Concepción, Elena D.; Dı́az, Mario; Kazakova, Yanka; Stefanova, Vyara; Marsden, Katrina; Brandt, Katharina; Jay, Marion; Piskol, Stephan; Oppermann, Rainer; Schraml, Antonia; Moreno, Gerardo

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2020.09.023

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“…One of the main challenges of CAP conservation measures is the low levels of adoption by farmers (Herzon et al, 2018;Pardo et al, 2020). Limited adoption of voluntary measures compromises the achievement of the minimum thresholds of complexity in the agricultural landscape that constrain the effectiveness of local actions (Concepción et al, 2008(Concepción et al, , 2012Díaz & Concepción, 2016).…”

Section: Increasing Farmers' Involvement In Cap Biodiversity Goalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A second factor is that training and advice to farmers for the application and management of CAP funds is usually led by professionals from the agricultural and financial sectors, with little or no participation of professionals from the environmental sector. This partly explains the low relative importance of environmental factors in farmers' decision-making (Kazakova et al, 2019a(Kazakova et al, , 2019bPardo et al, 2020). Administrations should therefore support and advise farmers in their transition towards a more environmentally sustainable agriculture, that will also play an active role in biodiversity conservation (Gaba & Bretagnolle, 2020).…”

Section: Increasing Farmers' Involvement In Cap Biodiversity Goalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Monitoring programmes of biodiversity targets are thus needed, designed in such a way that results of the assessments can be used to improve farmers' actions, policy designs, or both (Díaz & Concepción, 2016). Direct biodiversity monitoring and result-based payments would also provide greater credibility to the environmental objectives of CAP measures, encouraging their implementation by farmers (Pardo et al, 2020).…”

Section: Increasing Farmers' Involvement In Cap Biodiversity Goalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…On the other hand, the wide coverage as such-without further provisions for spatial coordination-does not seem enough in case of more demanding requirements such as the maintenance of non-productive features and areas. This issue recalls the debate around the Ecological Focus Areas (EFAs) provided under the greening mechanism in the previous CAP programming period, where different options for non-productive areas, including also ineffective options for biodiversity conservation, were available to farmers with no spatial mechanism [110,113]. The effectiveness of set-aside areas is expected to depend significantly on the local landscape composition which, in turn, they contribute to shape.…”

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Spatial Scale Mismatches in the EU Agri-Biodiversity Conservation Policy. The Case for a Shift to Landscape-Scale Design

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Agriculture is a major driver of the ongoing biodiversity decline, demanding an urgent transition towards a system that reconciles productivity and profitability with nature conservation; however, where public policies promote such transitions are in place, their design often poorly fits the relevant biogeophysical systems, decreasing the policies’ expected effectiveness. Spatial scale mismatches are a primary example in this regard. The literature reviewed in this paper, drawing from both ecology and policy studies, suggests to foster policy implementation at the landscape scale, where most functional ecological processes—and the delivery of related ecosystem services—occur on farmland. Two strategies are identified for coordinating policy implementation at the landscape scale: the promotion of farmers’ collective action and the partition of space on an ecologically sound basis through spatial planning. As the new European Union Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) post-2023 is currently being defined, we assess if and how the draft agri-biodiversity legislation includes any of the strategies above. We find no comprehensive uptake of the landscape-scale perspective at the EU level, thereby suggesting that a powerful tool to overcome the CAP underperformance on biodiversity is being overlooked.

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“…Furthermore, the agricultural sector impacts many environmental issues, such as climate change, cycles of nitrogen and phosphorus, water contamination, and soil degradation. Thus, it could represent an enabler of the mitigation of the risks related to the lack of controls and monitoring by governments [2,3].…”

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Twenty Years of Common Agricultural Policy in Europe: A Bibliometric Analysis

Fusco

2021

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The last few years have been marked by the increasing attention paid by policymakers to agricultural policies. Within this scenario, the Common Agricultural Policy represents one of the main initiatives developed by the European Commission to enhance the agricultural sector. Academics have actively contributed to the debate through empirical studies in order to evaluate the main strengths and weakness related to the public investments made by the European Commission. However, despite the relevance of the topic, the scientific debate is characterized by a high degree of fragmentation caused by the involvement of academics with different scientific backgrounds. Building on this evidence, this paper aims to contribute to the scientific debate on Common Agricultural Policy through a bibliometric analysis. The findings reveal the existence of three independent and complementary research clusters.

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To what extent does the European common agricultural policy affect key landscape determinants of biodiversity?

Cited by 19 publications

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Environmental Objectives of Spanish Agriculture: Scientific Guidelines for their Effective Implementation under the Common Agricultural Policy 2023-2030

Environmental Objectives of Spanish Agriculture: Scientific Guidelines for their Effective Implementation under the Common Agricultural Policy 2023-2030

Spatial Scale Mismatches in the EU Agri-Biodiversity Conservation Policy. The Case for a Shift to Landscape-Scale Design

Twenty Years of Common Agricultural Policy in Europe: A Bibliometric Analysis

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