Evaluating the effects of European support measures for Italian organic farms

Casolani, Nicola; Nissi, Eugenia; Giampaolo, Antonio; Liberatore, Lolita

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105225

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“…On the other hand, the voluntary agri-environmental and organic farming measures in Pillar II are able to promote environmentally friendly practices and to counterbalance trends of intensification linked to the first pillar with direct payments [50]. Overall, 6.4% of the total funds of RDP (1.5% of the total EU budget) is allocated to organic agriculture with the aim of mitigating the effects of a lower yield of organic production [19]. On the negative side, an undesirable effect of organic farming would be the simplification of the agricultural production in organic farms "which may contradict the need to implement practices consistent with the idea of sustainable development" [16].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…To study this issue in depth, data and studies are lacking, particularly comparative studies across Europe. Most of the existing publications concerned about the impact of CAP instruments are single case-based studies and/or primarily focused on organic farming support [16,[19][20][21][22][23]. To help guide the construction of better policies, more research efforts are needed to understand the performance of current policies in supporting agroecological transitions in Europe.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Assessment of the Common Agricultural Policy 2014–2020 in Supporting Agroecological Transitions: A Comparative Study of 15 Cases across Europe

Quero

Yoldi

Gava³

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This article is aimed at analyzing the potential that CAP 2014–2020-related instruments have on supporting agroecological transitions in Europe by focusing on the strengths and weaknesses of key instruments. Through a stepwise participatory research methodology, 105 key stakeholders (farmers, advisors, academics, environment experts, administration representatives, and professionals from food chains) in 15 countries in Europe were engaged in the discussion of the potential of current CAP instruments to solve the barriers that constrain agroecological farming systems in their particular regions. The results of this comparative study show which CAP instruments are valued with a high potential to support transitions to agroecology. The analysis of the stakeholders’ perceptions contributes to an enhanced understanding of why CAP instruments have failed or succeeded to promote agroecological transitions.

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Assessment of the Common Agricultural Policy 2014–2020 in Supporting Agroecological Transitions: A Comparative Study of 15 Cases across Europe

Quero

Yoldi

Gava³

et al. 2022

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“…AECM are area-based payments to eligible farms complying with a set of management requirements targeting an environmental objective such as the maintenance of biodiversity or the improvement of water quality. OF support has proven to be effective in maintaining the relative competitiveness of OF and is a major driver of the sector development (Casolani et al, 2021;Sanders et al, 2011), while AECM are the CAP instruments the most targeted towards public good provision (Batáry et al, 2015;Dupraz and Guyomard, 2019;European Court of Auditors, 2020;Matthews, 2013). In 2019, direct payments accounted for 69% of the CAP budget (40.5 billion euros), while 8.6% (3.5 billion euros) was allocated to OF support, AECM and Natura 2000 sites altogether (EC, 2019).…”

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Upscaling environmental incentives in the Common Agricultural Policy: an assessment of the potential of transfers from the first to second pillar

Le Gloux,

Dupraz

2024

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Agri-environment-climate measures and organic farming support have been the main contractual instruments promoting environment-friendly agricultural practices in the European Union since the 90s. They are insufficient in reaching significant environmental improvements, partly because underfunded. Using French panel data from the farm accountancy data network, we evaluate the impact of a budget transfer from income support to environmental incentives on contract uptake. We apply a generalised Tobit model to estimate the adoption probability and the acceptable farm-level payment triggering this adoption and simulate a transfer from direct payments to organic farming support and agri-environment-climate measures budget. Results suggest this mechanism increases adoption. Decreasing direct payments affects participation probabilities and acceptable farm-level payments, differently depending on the type of environmental contract, the type of direct payment and the farm technical orientation. We evaluate several transfer scenarios and provide ex-ante elements on how it could help reaching the Green Deal organic target.

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“…Stakeholders from corporate, academic, civil society, and governmental sectors highlighted a shift to organic agriculture as a sustainable solution to the negative effects of industrial agriculture [19]. In particular, European Union (EU) strategies regarding agricultural development encourage eco-friendly practices [20]. Europe's Farm to Fork (F2F) strategy aims to boost the development of its organic farming area to 25% of total farmland by 2030.…”

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Human Health and Ecosystem Quality Benefits with Life Cycle Assessment Due to Fungicides Elimination in Agriculture

Tsalidis

2022

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Industrial agriculture results in environmental burdens due to the overuse of fertilizers and pesticides. Fungicides is a class of pesticides whose application contributes (among others) to human toxicity and ecotoxicity. The European Union aims to increase organic agriculture. For this reason, this work aims to analyze climate change, freshwater ecotoxicity, terrestrial ecotoxicity, human toxicity, (terrestrial) acidification, and freshwater eutrophication impacts of fungicides and calculate expected benefits to human health (per European citizen) and ecosystem quality (terrestrial) with life cycle assessment (LCA) during crop production. The Scopus database was searched for LCA studies that considered the application of fungicides to specific crops. The analysis shows how many systemic and contact fungicides were considered by LCA studies and what was the applied dosage. Furthermore, it shows that fungicides highly contribute to freshwater ecotoxicity, terrestrial ecotoxicity, human toxicity, and freshwater eutrophication for fruits and vegetables, but to a low extent compared to all considered environmental impacts in the case of cereals and rapeseed. Expected benefits to human health and ecosystem quality after fungicides elimination are greater for fruits and vegetables, ranging between 0 to 47 min per European citizen in a year and 0 to 90 species per year, respectively.

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Evaluating the effects of European support measures for Italian organic farms

Cited by 13 publications

References 52 publications

Assessment of the Common Agricultural Policy 2014–2020 in Supporting Agroecological Transitions: A Comparative Study of 15 Cases across Europe

Assessment of the Common Agricultural Policy 2014–2020 in Supporting Agroecological Transitions: A Comparative Study of 15 Cases across Europe

Upscaling environmental incentives in the Common Agricultural Policy: an assessment of the potential of transfers from the first to second pillar

Human Health and Ecosystem Quality Benefits with Life Cycle Assessment Due to Fungicides Elimination in Agriculture

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