Farm business pathways under agri-environmental policies: lessons for policy design
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2015
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European farmers have been adopting different
practices in response to the Common Agricultural Policy
(CAP). One of the new features of the CAP is the effort to encourage
multifunctional farming systems which, besides food, also deliver
environmental goods and services. The key policy instruments promoting
environmentally-oriented farming are cross-compliance and
greening, included as prerequisites for accessing the CAP direct payments,
and agri-environment schemes (AES) provided as an optional
additional program. In this study we examine how farmers have been
coping with the CAP and its implications in terms of farm pathway
dependence. The results reveal that intensive farmers adhere to cross-
-compliance and are exploring the possibilities for complying with
greening in order to access the direct payments integrally, but either
do not accesses or access the basic (entry) level of the AES in order to
avoid taking land out of production. Extensive farmers easily comply
with cross-compliance and greening and tend to enrol most of the
farm into environment-related practices in order to access the high
level of the AES. As all the farmers have an important part of their
income from the CAP, these divergent coping strategies imply new
challenges for policy makers in any future effort to reform the CAP.
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Common agricultural policy (CAP), Agri-environment schemes (AES), Europe, Ecological movement, Política agrícola comum (PAC), Esquemas agro-ambientais, Europa, Movimento ecológico
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MEDINA, Gabriel; POTTER, Clive; POKORNY, Benno. Farm business pathways under agri-environmental policies: lessons for policy design. Estudos Sociedade e Agricultura, Rio de Jeneiro, v. 23, n. 1, p. 5-30, 2015.