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This study aims to shed light on the impact of the crop diversity criterion of green payments on farms' economic and environmental performances, alongside land use practices. In order to provide causal evidence, we exploit the natural experiment[...]Article
E. Ricciolini ; L. Rocchi ; L. Paolotti ; N. Gennari ; A. Ottaviani ; F.R. de la Rúa ; A. Boggia |The need for a more sustainable agri-food system is a topic that has attracted growing interest in recent years. Several international and European policies such as Agenda 2030 and the European Green Deal have been defined with the aim of making[...]Article
M. Torres-Miralles ; V. Kyttä ; P. Jeanneret ; M. Lamminen ; P. Manzano ; H.L. Tuomisto ; I. Herzon |CONTEXT Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) remains a method of choice for assessing the environmental performance of agricultural systems. However, it is rarely applied to multifunctional extensive production systems, in which livestock use, apart from[...]Article
D. Urdu ; A.J. Berre ; H. Sundmaeker ; S. Rilling ; I. Roussaki ; A. Marguglio ; K. Doolin ; P. Zaborowski ; R. Atkinson ; R. Palma ; M. Faraldi ; S. Wolfert |Interoperability is a critical challenge in Agri-food digitalisation, aligning with European data strategies and fostering pan-European cooperation, innovation, cost reduction, and market competition. Within the last years, the European Commissi[...]Article
N. Röder ; C. Krämer ; R. Grajewski ; S. Lakner ; A. Matthews |With the latest reform of the EUs common agricultural policy (CAP) in 2021, the EU has introduced a modified toolkit of environmental instruments. This paper compares the final version of the legal texts of the current and preceding CAP to anal[...]Article
Farmers facing a durable change in climate conditions may autonomously adapt through the intensive margin, the extensive margin, or through the adoption of new practices. Based on a coupling between a microeconomic model of European agriculture [...]Article
V. Fiala ; K. Jacob ; C. Barnickel ; P.H. Feindt |The transition towards more just and sustainable food systems is a major challenge which requires persuasive policy narratives for motivation and coordination. However, research about how relevant European actor groups view crucial elements of f[...]Article
S. Stranieri ; L. Orsi ; F. Zilia ; I. De Noni ; A. Olper |In the agri-food sector, firms and local systems can utilize both Geographical Indications and technological advancements as key strategic assets for growth in many European regions, but the combined contribution of Geographical Indications and [...]Article
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R. D'Alberto ; S. Targetti ; L. Schaller ; F. Bartolini ; T. Eichhorn ; E. Haltia ; K. Harmanny ; F. Le Gloux ; D. Nikolov ; T. Runge ; D. Vergamini ; D. Viaggi |The agri-environment-climate measures of the European Union Common Agricultural Policy are incentives aiming to reduce negative environmental impacts and increase positive effects generated from agriculture. Several criticisms have been addresse[...]Article
A. Kouriati ; A. Tafidou ; E. Lialia ; A. Prentzas ; C. Moulogianni ; E. Dimitriadou ; T. Bournaris |Focusing on sustainability, the new Common Agricultural Policy (20232027) sets ambitious goals for water management, as reducing irrigation water use is a vital issue. Cooperation among farmers, relevant authorities, and researchers plays a sig[...]Article
Alors qu'il est très facile de déconstruire ce qui a été fait, expliquons en quoi la PAC est une opportunité et comment cet outil peut être optimisé au service des producteurs européens. Quatre exemples à la clé pour un point de vue résolument o[...]Article
CONTEXT Small woody features (SWF), as field boundaries, hedgerows, or riparian buffers, are crucial for agricultural landscapes and, frequently, disregarded. In combination with agricultural land uses they are considered agroforestry systems (A[...]Article
H.J. Kim ; A. Lazurko ; G. Linney ; L. Maskell ; E. Díaz-General ; R.J. Brezovská ; H. Keune ; C. Laspidou ; H. Malinen ; S. Oinonen ; J. Raymond ; M. Rounsevell ; S. Vano ; M.D. Venâncio ; A. Viesca-Ramirez ; A. Wijesekera ; K. Wilson ; K. Ziliaskopoulos ; P.A. Harrison |Biodiversity underpins the functioning of ecosystems and the diverse benefits that nature provides to people, yet is being lost at an unprecedented rate. To halt or reverse biodiversity loss, it is critical to understand the complex interdepende[...]Article
The paper explores the role of Geographical Indications (GIs) in promoting the economic development of European regions. We consider all NUTS3 regions of Italy, France, and Spain between 1993 and 2014, and 728 GIs.. Our research aims to empirica[...]Article
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Since 2023, a new format of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has been implemented in Europe. Market forces alone cannot guarantee land services, which can be described as flows of goods and services from ecosystems to human systems as functi[...]Article
This article problematizes the EU Programme LEADER as a policy to improve opportunities to live and thrive in rural areas. LEADER was initiated in 1991 as a Commission initiative and has, over time, expanded and become an institutionalized publi[...]Article
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Y. Chiffoleau ; T. Dourian ; G. Enderli ; D. Mattioni ; G. Akermann ; A. Loconto ; F. Galli ; G. Emese ; Z. Perényi ; L. Colombo ; S. Massari ; D. Desclaux |Agrobiodiversity is in rapid decline, due to the intensification of agriculture and the development of food value chains based on industrial processing techniques. However, consumers are not generally involved in developing solutions to reverse [...]Article
Successful implementation of Europes agri-environmental policies faces various obstacles, several of which are closely linked to participation. Effectively increasing adoption of agri-environmental-climate measures (AECM) requires a deeper unde[...]Article
With the increasing concern about climate change and its impacts on agriculture, understanding the dynamics of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the European Union (EU) agricultural sector is essential for devising effective mitigation strategie[...]Article
A. Spiegel ; C. Heidecke ; J.G. Fournier Gabela ; D. Stepanyan ; M. Söder ; F. Freund ; A. Gocht ; M. Banse ; B. Osterburg |Summary In the EU's climate policy, agriculture is covered as an Effort-Sharing (ESR) sector, i.e. a sector beyond the Emission Trading System and LULUCF. Despite ambitious climate targets for the ESR sectors and an emerging focus on the need fo[...]Article
Amidst the rapid evolution of digital technologies and their prospective implications for agricultural productivity, farmers are increasingly turning to Agriculture 4.0. As digitization permeates every facet of agriculture, the potential for boo[...]Article
The inward flows of fruits and vegetables in the European Union are regulated by the import regime, consisting of a system of quotas and Entry Prices. The effectiveness of this trade policy has been under investigation since the early 2000s and [...]Article
M. Gemtou ; K. Kakkavou ; E. Anastasiou ; S. Fountas ; S.M. Pedersen ; G. Isakhanyan ; K.T. Erekalo ; S. Pazos-Vidal |Agriculture is currently facing major challenges related to ensuring the food security of a rising population and climate change with extreme weather patterns. At the same time, agriculture is a cause of environmental degradation, pollution and [...]Article
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The need to monitor changes in the level of agricultural competitiveness of EU member states necessitates the development of an appropriate set of indicators to answer the question of whether a country is improving its competitive position. This[...]Article
Research in the area of agro-economic modelling has been one of the key contributions of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) to the development of better agri-food policies in the EU. This article provides an overview of the development of the JRC's[...]