Fit for the task? Integration of biodiversity policy into the post-2020 Common Agricultural Policy: Illustration on the case of Slovenia

Šumrada, Tanja; Lovec, Marko; Juvančič, Luka; Rac, Ilona; Erjavec, Emil

doi:10.1016/j.jnc.2020.125804

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“…The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has often been criticised for its negative impacts on the environment, but the 2023 CAP reform provides financial incentives for farmers to adopt practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, promotes biodiversity, and protects natural resources. The relationship between environmental and agricultural policies -not necessarily the CAP -was addressed by a good amount of studies in different contexts (Alons, 2017;Biesbroek and Candel, 2020;De Roeck et al, 2018;Harahap et al, 2017;Medina Hidalgo et al, 2021;Mosnier et al, 2023;Schmidt, 2020;Šumrada et al, 2020;Zembe et al, 2022).…”

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confidence: 99%

Food Policy Coherence and Integration: a review of adopted methodologies

Monticone,

Samoggia

2024

rea

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Multiple scholars in the last two decades have called for a coherent and integrated approach to food policy to address the challenges of the current food systems. Food Policy Coherence and Integration (PCI) are both challenging, as food matters are addressed at more than one level of governance and across several policy domains. Moreover, the analysis of food PCI has been carried out with different methodologies, but no reviews of such methodologies exist in the literature. Thus, the objective of the present study is to fill this gap, by reviewing which research methods were used to assess food PCI. The research adopts a bibliometric methodological approach to develop a quantitative network analysis of the identified studies and content analysis. Data collection was performed on Web of Science and Scopus including exclusively scientific articles from peer-reviewed journals. A total of 35 articles published since 2006 were included in the analysis. The main topics addressed were health and nutrition policies, followed by food security and agriculture. A variety of methods were used to assess Coherence and Integration. The first methodological phase often aimed at creating a policy inventory, followed by a second methodological phase to assess PCI. Some studies used interviews to identify the relevant policies and to comment on them. Other studies carried out PCI assessment relying on researchers’ expertise. To conclude, food PCI studies choose from a variety of methodologies the one that better fits their aims.

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confidence: 99%

Food Policy Coherence and Integration: a review of adopted methodologies

Monticone,

Samoggia

2024

rea

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“…Within biodiversity policy analysis, and when the focus is specifically on biodiversity protection, the suggested terminology similar to the EPI concept [25] includes "mainstreaming biodiversity" [26,27] and "biodiversity policy integration" [28]. According to Huntley and Petersen (2005) [26], the concept of Biodiversity Mainstreaming involves "the integration of biodiversity conservation and sustainable use principles into policies, plans, programs, and production systems where the primary focus has previously been on production, economic activity, and development, rather than on biodiversity conservation losses or gains".…”

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Conceptualising Marine Biodiversity Mainstreaming as an Enabler of Regional Sustainable Blue Growth: The Case of the European Atlantic Area

Kyriazi,

de Almeida,

Marhadour

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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After recognizing the importance of marine and coastal resources and the use of marine space for economic growth, the European Union (EU) created and implemented a long-term Blue Economy (BE) strategy that supports the development of traditional and emerging marine and maritime sectors, aiming at the enhancement of Blue Growth (BG). However, despite the existence of a robust policy framework that supports the expansion of BE sectors at both an EU Sea Basin and state level, scholars have been sceptical as to whether the pursuit of BG adequately addresses the challenges that usually come with economic development, including those of climate change and marine biodiversity loss. Various frameworks for integrating sectoral goals with each other and with environmental goals that could facilitate the transition towards Sustainable Blue Growth (SBG) already exist and have been suggested and promoted by the European Commission, such as Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) and Marine Spatial Planning (MSP). They require the consideration of marine ecosystems and biodiversity and their protection as one of the BE sectors to be integrated via planning and management, which in turn requires the estimation of the value of ecosystem services and the spatial implications thereof. Nonetheless, there is little evidence or real-world examples on whether and how ecosystems, and within them coastal and marine biodiversity, are actually integrated (i.e., mainstreamed) when developing sectoral policies and planning and implementing economic activities at sea at various scales, i.e., local, national, and regional, and what the necessary steps and actions are that would facilitate such mainstreaming. By seeking evidence in EU and Atlantic Arc (AA) member states’ sectoral policies on marine tourism, ports and shipping, marine renewable energy, and fisheries and aquaculture (as promoted by the Atlantic Maritime Strategy and its corresponding action plans) and in the outcomes of the Interreg Atlantic Funded Research Project MOSES (aiming at valuating a Sustainable Blue Economy at the national and regional scale of the EU AA), the present article focused on understanding if and how marine biodiversity is taken into consideration by EU and AA BE and/or BG policies, strategies, and sectoral developments. Τhe selected sectoral policies demonstrate a good uptake of marine-ecosystem- and biodiversity-related challenges; however, at both the EU and the AA member-state level, it is unclear whether and how marine ecosystems and biodiversity are addressed as a separate BE sector. As such, we argue why and how Marine Biodiversity Mainstreaming (MBM) could address this gap, and hence it could contribute to planning, implementing, and managing maritime economic activities towards SBG at the Sea Basin level. This is demonstrated by illustrating the central role of MBM in enabling (and being further enabled by) the above integrative frameworks (i.e., MSP and EBM) and by presenting the key elements and actions required for such facilitation.

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“…Despite certain positive measures, this further-reformed CAP is perceived as insufficient by some (e.g. Heyl et al 2020), and as unconvincing (Sumrada et al 2020). Along with certain others, Gohin and Zheng (2020) are likewise of the opinion that European policymakers should ensure well-functioning risk-contingent markets, rather than maintaining rigid intervention-price levels.…”

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Transformation of agriculture in Czechia in the period 1990‑2020

Vaishar

Šťastná

2020

Stud. Obsz. Wiej.

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This paper characterises the development of Czech agriculture in the 30 years since the change of political regime. It notes that, although ownership has changed, the structure of large farms has been maintained. There has been a reduction in livestock production in particular, which has disrupted the traditional relationship between the two principal agricultural activities. The number of workers in the primary sector has fallen very rapidly, to less than 6% now, even in rural areas. Therefore, the communities in the Czech countryside are no longer dependent on agriculture, whose role is increasingly shifting to landscape maintenance and non-productive activities. At present, subsidies under the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy are the main driver in Czech agriculture. In the face of current challenges, attention needs to be paid to the environmental function of agriculture, while the impact of agricultural jobs on rural development is negligible.

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Fit for the task? Integration of biodiversity policy into the post-2020 Common Agricultural Policy: Illustration on the case of Slovenia

Cited by 20 publications

References 48 publications

Food Policy Coherence and Integration: a review of adopted methodologies

Food Policy Coherence and Integration: a review of adopted methodologies

Conceptualising Marine Biodiversity Mainstreaming as an Enabler of Regional Sustainable Blue Growth: The Case of the European Atlantic Area

Transformation of agriculture in Czechia in the period 1990‑2020

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