Does the Common Agricultural Policy enhance farming systems’ resilience? Applying the Resilience Assessment Tool (ResAT) to a farming system case study in the Netherlands

Buitenhuis, Yannick; Candel, Jeroen; Termeer, Katrien; Feindt, Peter H.

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.10.004

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“…Farm resilience can be facilitated or hindered by the CAP (Feindt et al, 2020;Mathijs and Wauters, 2020). CAP should assist farms to maintain the status quo (if/when the status quo is desirable), but also to help them adapt and transform when needed (Buitenhuis et al, 2020;Mathijs and Wauters, 2020). Given the CAP framework, the expectation is that policy measures will support farmers' income and viability, enable generational renewal, foster innovations, strengthen European rural areas and therefore increase the resilience of the farming systems (European Commission, 2017.…”

Section: Conceptual Framework: Farm Level and Policy Level Adaptive Processes Shaping The Resilience Of The Farmsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Given the CAP framework, the expectation is that policy measures will support farmers' income and viability, enable generational renewal, foster innovations, strengthen European rural areas and therefore increase the resilience of the farming systems (European Commission, 2017. Except for recent studies by Feindt et al (2019), and Mathijs and Wauters (2020) based on the analytical approach by Buitenhuis et al (2020), the academic literature on resilience does not provide a systematic assessment capturing the effect of the CAP on resilience (robustness, adaptability and transformability). Hence, in this study we build upon the work by Buitenhuis et al (2020).…”

Section: Conceptual Framework: Farm Level and Policy Level Adaptive Processes Shaping The Resilience Of The Farmsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Except for recent studies by Feindt et al (2019), and Mathijs and Wauters (2020) based on the analytical approach by Buitenhuis et al (2020), the academic literature on resilience does not provide a systematic assessment capturing the effect of the CAP on resilience (robustness, adaptability and transformability). Hence, in this study we build upon the work by Buitenhuis et al (2020). Buitenhuis et al (2020) introduced the Resilience Assessment Tool (ResAT) to provide a systematic set of key indicators and their respective characteristics for resilience-enabling policies.…”

Section: Conceptual Framework: Farm Level and Policy Level Adaptive Processes Shaping The Resilience Of The Farmsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Hence, in this study we build upon the work by Buitenhuis et al (2020). Buitenhuis et al (2020) introduced the Resilience Assessment Tool (ResAT) to provide a systematic set of key indicators and their respective characteristics for resilience-enabling policies. ResAT aims to explain to what extent current policies at the member state level, and in particular the CAP, enable or constrain the resilience of farming systems along the dimensions of robustness, adaptability and transformability.…”

Section: Conceptual Framework: Farm Level and Policy Level Adaptive Processes Shaping The Resilience Of The Farmsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Adaptive Governance and Resilience Capacity of Farms: The Fit Between Farmers’ Decisions and Agricultural Policies

Manevska‐Tasevska

Petitt

Larsson

et al. 2021

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Greater resilience is needed for farms to deal with shocks and disturbances originating from economic, environmental, social and institutional challenges, with resilience achieved by adequate adaptive governance. This study focuses on the resilience capacity of farms in the context of multi-level adaptive governance. We define adaptive governance as adjustments in decision-making processes at farm level and policy level, through changes in management practices and policies in response to identified challenges and the delivery of desired functions (e.g. private and public goods) to be attained. The aim of the study is twofold. First, we investigate how adaptive governance processes at farm level and policy level influence the resilience capacity of farms in terms of robustness, adaptability and transformability. Second, we investigate the “fit” between the adaptive governance processes at farm level and policy level to enable resilience. We study primary egg and broiler production in Sweden taking into consideration economic, social and environmental challenges. We use semi-structured interviews with 17 farmers to explain the adaptive processes at farm level and an analysis of policy documents from the Common Agricultural Policy program 2014–2020, to explain the intervention actions taken by the Common Agricultural Policy. Results show that neither the farm level nor policy level adaptive processes on their own have the capacity to fully enable farms to be robust, adaptable and transformable. While farm level adaptive processes are mainly directed toward securing the robustness and adaptability of farms, policy level interventions are targeted at enabling adaptability. The farm- and the policy level adaptive processes do not “fit” for attaining robustness and transformability.

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Section: Conceptual Framework: Farm Level and Policy Level Adaptive Processes Shaping The Resilience Of The Farmsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Conceptual Framework: Farm Level and Policy Level Adaptive Processes Shaping The Resilience Of The Farmsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Conceptual Framework: Farm Level and Policy Level Adaptive Processes Shaping The Resilience Of The Farmsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Conceptual Framework: Farm Level and Policy Level Adaptive Processes Shaping The Resilience Of The Farmsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Adaptive Governance and Resilience Capacity of Farms: The Fit Between Farmers’ Decisions and Agricultural Policies

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Petitt

Larsson

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“…In order to protect the ecological environment, Germany promotes green farming in accordance with the EU policy framework, maintaining green areas and planting intercropping crops to achieve sustainable use of arable land resources, which initially shows the effect of green subsidies [32]. In order to promote the highly intensive and ecological development of agriculture, the Dutch government has introduced and implemented a strict ecological environment protection system [33]. In Europe, the formation of the common agricultural policy has a greater role in promoting the green development of European agriculture.…”

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Green Transition of Cultivated Land Use in the Yellow River Basin: A Perspective of Green Utilization Efficiency Evaluation

Sun

et al. 2020

Land

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Exploring the green transition of cultivated land use from the perspective of green utilization efficiency evaluation has become an important content of deepening the study of cultivated land use transition, which is of great significance to promote food security and ecological civilization construction. At present, there are few studies on the green utilization efficiency of cultivated land (GUECL), which covers the comprehensive benefits of economy, ecology and society, combined with the requirements of ecological civilization and green development. Taking 65 cities (regions and autonomous prefectures) of the Yellow River Basin as the basic evaluation unit, the GUECL of the Yellow River Basin is evaluated with a Super-SBM model. In general, the GUECL of the Yellow River Basin was not high at four time points of 2000, 2006, 2012 and 2018, which presents a trend of “rising first and then falling”. Analyzing its temporal and spatial evolution pattern, the GUECL in the upper, middle and lower reaches presented an order of the upper reaches area > the lower reaches area > the middle reaches area; and the spatial variation trend showed a decrease from west to east, and a U-shaped change in the south-north direction. Using spatial correlation analysis, except for the year 2000, the GUECL in the Yellow River Basin presents a general distribution characteristic of spatial agglomeration, which is positively correlated in 2006, 2012 and 2018. The change of spatio-temporal pattern is the result of internal and external factors. The former mainly displays in the main characteristics of farmers, family characteristics and farmers’ cognition, while the latter is reflected in natural, social and policy factors.

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An Adapted Indicator Framework for Evaluating the Potential Contribution of Bioeconomy Approaches to Agricultural Systems Resilience

Lewandowski,

von Cossel,

Winkler

et al. 2024

Advanced Sustainable Systems

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This study reviews a variety of “bioeconomy approaches” (BAs) to assess their potential contribution to resilience in agricultural systems, focusing on benefits that can improve multi‐functionality regarding private and public goods. It is based on Meuwissen et al.'s framework to assess the resilience of farming systems. Drawing on literature and expert knowledge, this indicator framework is adapted to develop a new framework which is then applied to seven contrasting BAs (miscanthus, perennial flowering wild plant mixtures, permanent grassland, nutrient recycling, agrivoltaics, urban agriculture, and microalgae). The major outcomes are: 1) the extended indicator framework can help evaluate BAs for their potential to foster resilience in future agricultural systems, 2) all BAs are characterized by their ability to provide multiple private and public goods simultaneously, 3) the strongest contribution of BAs to public goods is their function in maintaining the good condition of natural resources and resource‐use efficiency, 4) all BAs can enhance resilience in agricultural systems by contributing diversity, multifunctionality, environmental sustainability, and autonomy, 5) the mitigation of potential drawbacks of BAs implementation requires ex‐ante assessment, favorable BAs combinations, and stakeholder involvement, 6) context‐specific analysis of each BAs is required to assess their qualitative and quantitative contribution to resilience.

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Does the Common Agricultural Policy enhance farming systems’ resilience? Applying the Resilience Assessment Tool (ResAT) to a farming system case study in the Netherlands

Cited by 56 publications

References 62 publications

Adaptive Governance and Resilience Capacity of Farms: The Fit Between Farmers’ Decisions and Agricultural Policies

Adaptive Governance and Resilience Capacity of Farms: The Fit Between Farmers’ Decisions and Agricultural Policies

Green Transition of Cultivated Land Use in the Yellow River Basin: A Perspective of Green Utilization Efficiency Evaluation

An Adapted Indicator Framework for Evaluating the Potential Contribution of Bioeconomy Approaches to Agricultural Systems Resilience

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