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

Jordan Hristov; Yann Clough; Ullrika Sahlin; Henrik G. Smith; Martin Stjernman; Ola Olsson; Amanda Sahrbacher; Mark V. Brady

doi:10.1002/aepp.13037

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

Jordan Hristov, Yann Clough, Ullrika Sahlin, Henrik G. Smith, Martin Stjernman, Ola Olsson, Amanda Sahrbacher, Mark V. Brady

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	716-738
Journal	Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
Volume	42
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13037
Publication status	Published - 2020 Dec 1

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Funding Information:
We gratefully acknowledge funding from the MULTAGRI project within the RURAGRI ERA‐NET (EU/FP7) framework and the FORMAS project “Predicting policy impact on biodiversity ‐ effects of the Common Agricultural Policy on farmland birds” (Grant nr 226‐2013‐1204) for financing this research. We also greatly appreciate comments from coeditor Daniel Petrolia and three anonymous referees that helped to improve the manuscript. The paper is a contribution to the strategic research area Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing Climate, BECC.

Funding Information:
We gratefully acknowledge funding from the MULTAGRI project within the RURAGRI ERA-NET (EU/FP7) framework and the FORMAS project ?Predicting policy impact on biodiversity - effects of the Common Agricultural Policy on farmland birds? (Grant nr 226-2013-1204) for financing this research. We also greatly appreciate comments from coeditor Daniel Petrolia and three anonymous referees that helped to improve the manuscript. The paper is a contribution to the strategic research area Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing Climate, BECC.

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© 2020 The Authors. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Agricultural & Applied Economics Association.

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Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

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Environmental Sciences and Nature Conservation (including Biodiversity)

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agent-based modeling
biodiversity
CAP reform
Ecological Focus Areas (EFA)
ecosystem services
landscape
spatial production functions

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