Is the Greening Instrument a Valid Precedent for the New Green Architecture of the CAP? The Case of Spain

Díaz-Poblete, Carmelo; García-Cortijo, M. Carmen; Valero, Juan Sebastián Castillo

doi:10.3390/su13105705

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“…In turn, Díaz-Poblete et al [71] conducted an ex post facto study limited to Spain using the statistical technique difference in differences (DiD), concluding that greening had a limited impact, its efficiency for meeting its goal was questionable, and that it was not a sound precedent for building the new green architecture of the CAP. According to Louhichi et al [72] the CAP greening effect on farm income was rather small at the aggregate level, which was the result of the fact that the majority of farms had complied with the greening requirements from the starting point.…”

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Direct Payments and Sustainable Agricultural Development—The Example of Poland

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This paper aims to explore the importance of the direct-payments scheme as a tool for supporting the sustainable development of agriculture in Poland, and to assess the effects of the 2015 Common Agricultural Policy reform in this context. In particular, the study attempts to investigate the impact of different fund-allocation criteria on the regional distribution of direct payments. The research employs a simulation method in the form of variant analysis (the “what if” model)—a mathematical method with elements of statistical description, based on the complete dataset. For the purposes of one of the variants, a multi-criteria composite indicator was constructed, including stimulants and destimulants of the level of environmental sustainability of agricultural plant production. The analysis was conducted at the NUTS 2 level (voivodeships). The timeframe of the study covered the period 2010–2019. The data published by Statistics Poland and the Agency for the Restructuring and Modernisation of Agriculture were used as the source material. The analysis indicated that the 2015 Common Agricultural Policy reform redistributed public funds away from sustainable agricultural management principles. Applying some basic sustainability criteria in order to internalise environmental externalities would lead to a radical redistribution of first-pillar Common Agricultural Policy payments. The paper concludes that a real greening of the European Union’s agricultural policy is a task still to be accomplished.

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Direct Payments and Sustainable Agricultural Development—The Example of Poland

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“…However, grassland is considered very important for biodiversity conservation, soil protection, and carbon sequestration [76,77], and afforestation poses a threat to semi-natural habitats with characteristic and highly localised plant communities, such as grasslands [78]. In order to prevent massive conversion of permanent grassland to cropland, the current EU regulations include a requirement to maintain the proportion of permanent grassland in agricultural land across the country, which must not decrease by more than 5% compared to the 2015 reference year [79,80].…”

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Is It Possible for Poland to Achieve the Policy Goal of 33% Forest Cover by Mid-Century?

Kaliszewski

Jabłoński

2022

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The aim of the present paper is to discuss the problems with attempts to increase forest area in Poland (with a focusing on afforestation in the last 30 years), to analyse the discrepancy between the afforested area and the recorded increase in forest area, and to identify solutions that could enable Poland to achieve the policy goal of 33% forest cover by 2050. The study is based on available official documents, statistical data, and the existing literature. It presents the results of a postal survey of key institutional actors involved in afforestation in Poland on the factors hindering the implementation of afforestation on private land. The study shows that the main factors influencing the collapse of afforestation are long-term, and it is unlikely that this trend will be reversed in the coming years. However, it appears possible to take steps to convert forested agricultural lands that meet national criteria for recognition as forest to forest. The urgent need to protect biodiversity and improve environmental quality in the face of climate change makes it necessary to develop and implement a new program to increase forest area and to provide coherent tools to support the conversion of forested agricultural land to forest.

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“…The application of rotational fallow in rainfed cereal-based production system is very common in the Mediterranean, including in the regions of Soria and Albacete where agricultural statistics (MAPA data) confirm that around 20% of the arable land is covered by fallow land. With the introduction of Greening through the CAP, the choice for rotational fallow as Ecological Focus Area (EFA) in this system was therefore by far the most frequently chosen (Díaz-Poblete et al, 2021). This aspect is important to keep in mind in our analysis because it implies that identifying unused lands that are unused for 1 year are very likely to be part of common rotational practices and/or allocated as EFA.…”

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Identification of early abandonment in cropland through radar‐based coherence data and application of a Random‐Forest model

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In the context of increased pressures on land for food and non‐food production, it is relevant to understand better, which land resources have become unused and abandoned and where these lands are. Data on where these lands are and what their extend is are not collected in regular statistics. In this paper, we present an approach to detect signs of abandonment in cropping land using radar coherence data. The methodology was tested in the Spanish regions of Albacete and Soria where agricultural land abandonment is a common process. The results show that land abandonment detection using radar coherence data works well for the region of Albacete in arable lands. The radar‐based analysis is a relatively simple method to detect land abandonment in an early to longer term state and can therefore be applied once developed and tested further in other regions to larger areas of the EU where land abandonment is serious and needs monitoring and policy response. The applicability of the method to Soria and Emilia Romagna (Italy) regions shows that there are still challenges to overcome to make the method more widely applicable for detecting land abandonment in other environmental zones of Europe. Lack of reliable training and validation data, like Land Parcel Identification Systems data, in regions is one of the challenges in this respect.

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Is the Greening Instrument a Valid Precedent for the New Green Architecture of the CAP? The Case of Spain

Cited by 8 publications

References 21 publications

Direct Payments and Sustainable Agricultural Development—The Example of Poland

Direct Payments and Sustainable Agricultural Development—The Example of Poland

Is It Possible for Poland to Achieve the Policy Goal of 33% Forest Cover by Mid-Century?

Identification of early abandonment in cropland through radar‐based coherence data and application of a Random‐Forest model

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