Impacts of greening measures and flat rate regional payments of the Common Agricultural Policy on Scottish beef and sheep farms

2015 ◽  
Vol 153 (4) ◽  
pp. 676-688 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. VOSOUGH AHMADI ◽  
S. SHRESTHA ◽  
S.G. THOMSON ◽  
A.P. BARNES ◽  
A.W. STOTT
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Common Agricultural Policy ◽  
Farm Level ◽  
Flat Rate ◽  
Farming Communities ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Level Model ◽  
Environmental Measures ◽  
Beef Suckler ◽  
Farm Types

SUMMARYThe latest Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reforms could bring substantial changes to Scottish farming communities. Two major components of this reform package, an introduction of environmental measures into the Pillar 1 payments and a move away from historical farm payments towards regionalized area payments, would have a significant effect on altering existing support structures for Scottish farmers, as it would for similar farm types elsewhere in Europe where historic payments are used. An optimizing farm-level model was developed to explore how Scottish beef and sheep farms might be affected by the greening and flat rate payments under the current CAP reforms. Nine different types of beef and sheep farms were identified and detailed biophysical and financial farm-level data for these farm types were used to parameterize the model. Results showed that the greening measures of the CAP did not have much impact on net margins of most of the beef and sheep farm businesses, except for ‘Beef Finisher’ farm types where the net margins decreased by 3%. However, all farm types were better off adopting the greening measures than not qualifying for the greening payments through non-compliance with the measures. The move to regionalized farm payments increased the negative financial impact of greening on most of the farms but it was still substantially lower than the financial sacrifice of not adopting greening measures. Results of maximizing farm net margin, under a hypothetical assumption of excluding farm payments, showed that in most of the mixed (sheep and cattle) and beef suckler cattle farms the optimum stock numbers predicted by the model were lower than actual figures on farm. When the regionalized support payments were allocated to each farm, the proportion of the mixed farms that would increase their stock numbers increased whereas this proportion decreased for beef suckler farms and no impact was predicted in sheep farms. Also under the regionalized support payments, improvements in profitability were found in mixed farms and sheep farms. Some of the specialized beef suckler farms also returned a profit when CAP support was added.

scholarly journals Adaptive Governance and Resilience Capacity of Farms: The Fit Between Farmers’ Decisions and Agricultural Policies

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordana Manevska-Tasevska ◽  
Andrea Petitt ◽  
Sara Larsson ◽  
Ivan Bimbilovski ◽  
Miranda P. M. Meuwissen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Common Agricultural Policy ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Adaptive Governance ◽  
Farm Level ◽  
Policy Level ◽  
Adaptive Processes ◽  
The Common ◽  
Governance Processes ◽  
Resilience Capacity

Greater resilience is needed for farms to deal with shocks and disturbances originating from economic, environmental, social and institutional challenges, with resilience achieved by adequate adaptive governance. This study focuses on the resilience capacity of farms in the context of multi-level adaptive governance. We define adaptive governance as adjustments in decision-making processes at farm level and policy level, through changes in management practices and policies in response to identified challenges and the delivery of desired functions (e.g. private and public goods) to be attained. The aim of the study is twofold. First, we investigate how adaptive governance processes at farm level and policy level influence the resilience capacity of farms in terms of robustness, adaptability and transformability. Second, we investigate the “fit” between the adaptive governance processes at farm level and policy level to enable resilience. We study primary egg and broiler production in Sweden taking into consideration economic, social and environmental challenges. We use semi-structured interviews with 17 farmers to explain the adaptive processes at farm level and an analysis of policy documents from the Common Agricultural Policy program 2014–2020, to explain the intervention actions taken by the Common Agricultural Policy. Results show that neither the farm level nor policy level adaptive processes on their own have the capacity to fully enable farms to be robust, adaptable and transformable. While farm level adaptive processes are mainly directed toward securing the robustness and adaptability of farms, policy level interventions are targeted at enabling adaptability. The farm- and the policy level adaptive processes do not “fit” for attaining robustness and transformability.

scholarly journals Effects of the Common Agricultural Policy potential scenarios after 2013 in the Slovak Republic

2011 ◽  
Vol 57 (No. 1) ◽  
pp. 27-34
Author(s):  
E. Uhrinčaťová
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Computable General Equilibrium ◽  
Common Agricultural Policy ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Computable General Equilibrium Model ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Flat Rate ◽  
The Common

The contribution presents the modelling solution of the potential scenarios impact of the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union after 2013 in the selected sectors of the Slovak Republic national economy. The solution is accomplished using the Computable General Equilibrium model with the emphasis on the productive and less favourable agricultural areas and the theoretical rents for agricultural land. If we take into consideration both pillars of the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union, according to the modelling calculations in Slovak conditions the most favoured is the Conservative scenario, the Reference and the Flat Rate scenario are neutral and the least favourable is the Liberalisation scenario.

scholarly journals NATURA 2000 NETWORK AN OPPORTUNITY FOR RURAL SPACE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

1970 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oana Branzan
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Common Agricultural Policy ◽  
Natura 2000 ◽  
Natura 2000 Network ◽  
Sustainable Rural Development ◽  
Natural Protected Areas ◽  
Rural Space ◽  
Geographical Regions ◽  
Agricultural Policy Reform ◽  
Environmental Measures

Natura 2000 is a European network for natural protected areas. Common Agricultural Policy reform include a series of agri-environmental measures that have to be adapted to Natura 2000 conservation management requirements. Romanian territory could be characterized by a rich natural areas diversity and a series of habitats specified for 5 bio-geographical regions. Through agri-environmental measures a series of financial advantages could be pointed out for the farmers who chose to protect the environment or to sustain indirectly the Natura 2000 sites, for a common sustainable rural development. The Common Agricultural Policy have to be adapted to present demands and the implementation of the Natura 2000 network will be different for each rural space.

scholarly journals CAP post 2022 scenarios and income impacts – a case analysis for selected typical farms in Slovenia

2021 ◽  
Vol 117 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Jaka ŽGAJNAR ◽  
Luka JUVANČIČ ◽  
Stane KAVČIČ ◽  
Emil ERJAVEC
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Farm Income ◽  
Farm Level ◽  
Farm Model ◽  
Financial Framework ◽  
Direct Payments ◽  
Representative Farms ◽  
The Impact ◽  
High Share ◽  
Farm Types

Assessment based on representative farms is an established approach in the modern assessment of the effects of changes in agricultural policy. In line with previous CAP reforms, we can expect income redistribution impacts also with the implementation of the legislative and financial framework of the CAP for the next period. This paper discusses a scenario analysis using the farm model. The model is based on linear programming, which enables to address various technological challenges at farm level. We formed the scenarios for the analysis following the example of the scenarios contained in the impact assessment that the European Commission prepared for the CAP after 2020. The analysis involves selected farm types from selected sectors. The results suggest that the expected reduction in the envelope will generally lead to lower farm-level revenues from CAP direct payments. Consequently, economic performance will deteriorate, what is likely to be amplified in some sectors by the abolition of historical payments. The range of consequences at farm level will likely be considerable, especially for sectors and production types with a high share of CAP payments in the structure of total farm income. In certain sectors, however, there is even an improvement regarding the current situation.

scholarly journals Flattening and redistribution of the CAP direct payments for the EU27 regions

2012 ◽  
Vol 58 (No. 10) ◽  
pp. 443-453
Author(s):  
M. Kožar ◽  
M. Kempen ◽  
W. Britz ◽  
E. Erjavec
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Common Agricultural Policy ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Farm Income ◽  
Reference Scenario ◽  
Member States ◽  
Flat Rate ◽  
Comparative Static Analysis ◽  
Direct Payments

 The paper presents key results regarding a possible reform of the Common Agricultural Policy direct payments, based on a scenario analysis by the CAPRI (Common Agricultural Policy Regionalized Impact) modelling system. Combining aggregate programming models at the NUTS 2 level with a global spatial multi-commodity model, it enables depicting the impacts of different policy and economic scenarios from regional to the global scale. The paper discusses simulated impacts on farm income and agricultural markets from implementing the European flat rate hectare payment corrected for the purchasing power disparities across the Member States while reducing the overall budget outlays for direct payments by 50% and dismantling the remaining coupled support to ruminants. The results are an outcome of a comparative static analysis against a reference scenario which assumes the Health Check policy in 2020. The model results suggest a drop of the agricultural gross value added by 9% at the aggregate EU27 level compared to the reference scenario. Impacts differ between the Member States groups, Member States and regions, depending on the share of premiums in the income from agriculture, specialization and competitiveness of production. The largest reduction is projected for the suckler cow herd, dropping by 6% compared to the reference scenario. The drop is caused by removing the coupled support and affecting mostly the herds in Spain and France.    

Cherneha O. B., Chepurnova A. V. COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF UKRAINE AND POLAND FOOD SECURITY LEVELS

2019 ◽  
pp. 9-17
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Common Agricultural Policy ◽  
Public Spending ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Rural Development Program ◽  
Security Levels ◽  
The Eu

Objective. The purpose of the article is to compare the levels and mechanisms of food security management in Ukraine and Poland, to identify the main factors influencing the processes of its formation and to determine the directions of increasing the level of Ukraine food security. Methods. The scientific results of the study were obtained using the following methods: theoretical generalization and comparison (for the study of meaningful aspects of the definition of «food security»), analysis and synthesis (for comparative analysis of Ukraine and Poland food security levels), abstract-logical method (for establishing the links between the level of economic development of countries and the levels of their food security and determining the directions of increasing the Ukraine level of food security). Results. On the basis of a comparative analysis of Ukraine and Poland food security levels, a significant gap in Ukraine’s provision of food security has been identified. Thus, with respect to all food security components identified by FAO, except for the «use» of sanitary and safe drinking water, Poland has reached far ahead of Ukraine. It has been found that for the period 2012–2018, the value of the Global Food Security Index for Ukraine decreased by 2.1 due to a decrease in the level of affordability and availability of food, while the Polish side increased its position on GFSI by 2.8 due to the increase in affordability and availability of food in the country. It has been found that the decisive influence on the level of food security in Poland, as well as high ranking in the ranking is carried out by the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the implementation of the Polish Rural Development Program and significant public spending on agriculture. It has been determined that the main directions for improving the level of food security of Ukraine should be: lifting the moratorium on the sale of agricultural land; financing the agri-food sector not only through public spending but also through EU programs; creation and implementation of the National Rural Development Program; full and unconditional implementation of Government programs on EU integration; adaptation to the EU Common Agricultural Policy standards.

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