A greener CAP: still within reach?

The greening of the CAP hangs in the balance in the final negotiations; a synthesis of key issues and requirements.

EP vote must not undermine a greener CAP

A decade’s progress in improving the Common Agricultural Policy’s environmental credentials risks being lost if the EP vote to water down the Commission’s ambitious proposals to green the CAP.

Designing RDPs fit for the environment

Substantial changes to rural development regulation have been proposed which provide significant opportunities for Member States to deliver more for the environment. This report highlights some of these opportunities and sets out a series of principles and environmental priorities to help guide Member States in designing their future rural development programmes.

Estimating the Overall Economic Value of the Benefits provided by the Natura 2000 Network

Estimated benefits provided to EU citizens from the EU’s Natura 2000 Network could be in the range of €200 to €300 billion a year.

Delivering environmental benefits through entry-level agri-environment schemes in the EU

A new study of the 2007-13 agri-environment schemes across the whole of EU-27 provides the first typology of ‘entry-level’ agri-environment management and environmental objectives, plus a detailed insight into the design of entry-level agri-environment schemes and calculation of payment rates in seven Member States.

Redesigning the CAP to deliver public goods

As a contribution to the CAP reform debate, this report considers options for redesigning the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to maximise the delivery of public goods, particularly in relation to the environment and rural vitality.

Developing a Territorial Approach for the CAP

A timely discussion paper explaining how a territorial approach can be developed within rural development policy and other aspects of the CAP.

Costs of delivering environmental benefits through agriculture and forestry management

For the first time, this report provides an estimate of the scale of funding needed to achieve environmental outcomes through agricultural and forestry management in the EU to 2020.

Public Goods and Public Intervention in Agriculture

Paper 1: Achieving a transition away from CAP direct payments

This paper examines a range of transitional arrangements that could facilitate a shift in the basis of CAP payments away from the current system of support, towards one based on a rationale more focused ...

Major Study on Public Goods Published by IEEP

The Common Agricultural Policy plays a critical role in helping farmers to deliver environmental goods and services, provided that policies are targeted in the right way. This is the key message of an ...

The Provision of Public Goods through Agriculture in the European Union

The report is a first ever attempt to identify the full range of environmental public goods provided by farmers across Europe and sets out the arguments for paying for their delivery via the public purse. ...

Reflecting Environmental Land Use Needs into EU Policy: Preserving and Enhancing the Environmental Benefits of Unfarmed Features on EU Farmland. Final Report.

This report provides a rationale for affording greater protection to Europe's stock of farmland features in the future. It examines the distribution and density of features that exist across Europe's agricultural ...

Climate change and the rural environment in a European context: Implications for land use and land use policy

IEEP has written a background paper for the LUPG/BfN conference on 'Future Policies for Rural Europe. 2013 and Beyond', held in Brussels, 19 - 20 September.All four conference papers can be accessed from ...

CFP Briefing No 11