Agriculture & Land Management

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  Addressing the EU’s biodiversity goals through the CAP

  What is the relationship between the management of agricultural land and biodiversity? To what extent are the EU’s biodiversity goals addressed through the CAP?

• 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.

• Delivering Environmental Benefits through Ecological Focus Areas

  IEEP workshop on 6 March brought together a range of stakeholders to discuss possible environmental benefits through Ecological Focus Areas.

• The CAP Proposals: Green in more than name?

  The proposals from the Commission on the future CAP, announced on 12 October, could have represented a major step towards improved environmental management across the EU, but in practice they leave major doubts over how much really will be delivered.

• 2014-2020 EU Multi-annual Financial Framework: Opportunities and Challenges for Climate Change and the Environment

  This presentation analyses the Commission proposals on the 2014-2020 Multi-annual Financial Framework unveiled on 29 June 2011. More specifically, it identifies opportunities and challenges for the financing of climate change and the environment in the future EU budget.

• 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.

• Greening the CAP: Delivering Environmental Outcomes through Pillar One

  This opportune paper examines the European Commission’s current proposals for ‘greening’ Pillar 1 of the CAP and their potential to deliver environmental objectives.

• 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.

• EU Natural Resources policy: Signposts on the roadmap to sustainability

  The EU is committed to building improved resource efficiency into its economic strategy, starting with a “roadmap” this year. A new paper from the Institute sets out the challenges, reviews the mixed results of previous EU policy in this area and suggests a number of ways forward. Both a broad vision and an array of practical policy initiatives are required.

• IEEP Comments on the Commission’s Blueprint for the CAP post 2013

  The European Commission has launched its outline proposals for a significant reform of the Common Agricultural Policy. Entitled ‘The CAP towards 2020: meeting the food, natural resources and territorial challenges of the future’, the Communication represents a potentially...

• Evaluation of Cross Compliance in the EU 25

  IEEP's two-part evaluation of Member State approaches to cross compliance implementation in the EU 25 is now available.Under Regulation 1782/2003 Cross Compliance was introduced as a compulsory measure ...

• Paper 1: Achieving a transition away from CAP direct payments – study published

  This IEEP paper ‘Achieving a transition away from CAP direct payments’ for the Land Use Policy Group (LUPG) 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 on the provision of environmental goods and services.

• Paper 2: Scoping the Development of the Environmentally Sustainable Production Agenda

  This paper sets out the key issues and questions that need to be considered for the establishment of a Sustainable Production Agenda for Europe and explores the implications of these issues for the development ...

• Paper 3: Developing a More Comprehensive Rationale for EU Funding for the Environment

  This paper evaluates the case for using state intervention to reverse existing environmental degradation and deliver improvements, before focusing specifically on the rationale for intervening at the European ...

• 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 ...

• IEEP Conference on Future of the CAP - March 9

  IEEP is hosting a conference Visions and Design: Securing a CAP for the Future on 9 March 2010 in Brussels.The event presents the most up-to-date thinking on a future Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) to ...

• 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 ...

• Study on the economic, social and environmental impact of the modulation provided for in Article 10 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003

  ‘Modulation’ is a policy mechanism, which aims to provide targeted support to rural areas, to improve the competitiveness of the farming and forestry sectors, enhance the environment and improve quality ...

• Evaluation of the Environmental Impacts of CAP Measures Related to the Beef and Milk Sectors

  This evaluation seeks to determine the extent to which price support and direct payments applied in the beef and veal and dairy sectors since 1988 are in coherence with obligations for environmental protection ...