The contribution of research to agricultural policy in Europe

Matthews, Alan

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“…Examples of soil information management, crop growth information, pest and weed information, and farmland environmental information acquisition are listed in Table 2 [49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66]. The methods and techniques used are analyzed, and the data obtained and the development of precision fertilization and irrigation are briefly summarized.…”

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Precision Fertilization and Irrigation: Progress and Applications

Liu

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AgriEngineering

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The transformation and upgrading of traditional agriculture are required to address its shortcomings and deficiencies, which have resulted in environmental pollution or water problems. Precision agriculture emerged at the historic moment to solve the current problems. Field information collection, information management and decision-making, and execution systems are the three key links of precision fertilization and irrigation. The technical principle and application of field information acquisition systems are analyzed. The information management and decision-making system describes the management and summary of information in crop growth. The execution system combines the knowledge of various disciplines and experts for targeted applications to specific crops. It further focuses on the core implementation system, that is, variable fertilization technology and variable spraying technology that can realize variable operations. Major contributions from different countries, institutions, corresponding authors, and journals are presented in detail. This study proposes several suggestions and ideas based on the research status and progress of the three key systems to provide a theoretical basis and technical support for the research and development of key technologies and innovative devices of precision agricultural fertilization and irrigation.

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Precision Fertilization and Irrigation: Progress and Applications

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“…What is common between these two opposite views is that both see the CAP as a policy expected to produce an effect on (or a response by) the farming sector (OECD, 2011;Matthews, 2021). 1 Maybe, however, this is not the proper perspective from which the CAP and its reforms have to be evaluated.…”

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“…7 A lot of research work has been done in order to directly investigate, simulate, estimate the impact of these CAP reform steps on beneficiaries. This large body of literature is definitely helpful in better understanding the mechanisms through which the CAP operates and, therefore, in better designating and implementing it (Matthews, 2021). But analysing the possible impact of the CAP and its reforms with these approaches does not necessarily correspond to a program evaluation.…”

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The co-evolution of policy support and farmers behaviour. An investigation on Italian agriculture over the 2008-2019 period

Esposti

2022

BAE

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This paper investigates the co-evolution of the CAP expenditure and of the farms’ performance and choices to assess whether and to what extent CAP assessment itself meets the requisites of Causal Inference. In order to identify some regularities in this co-evolution, the analysis is performed on a constant group of professional farms over a long enough time period. The Italian 2008-2019 FADN balanced sample is here considered. Results points to two major empirical implications. First of all, they question whether CAP expenditure is actually accompanied by any significant farmers’ response. An exception may actually concern the support specifically focused on environmental standards. Secondly, they raises some major methodological issues about the applicability of the Treatment Effect logic to CAP assessment.

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“…The US embargo on the export of soya in 1973 encouraged the European Economic Community (as the EU was then) to seek to reduce dependency on imported soya. Over the last five decades, a trade policy that favoured European specialisation in cereals was gradually replaced by WTO‐compatible payments to farmers that are not linked to production: they are “decoupled” (Matthews, 2021). In addition, grain legumes (protein crops) have received subsidies and other forms of support (Bues et al, 2013; European Commission, 2019).…”

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“…The European Union's agricultural policy agenda has recently broadened to include resilient and sustainable food system goals (Matthews, 2021). For legumes and plant protein, effective policy intervention in support of a sustainable food system is now about managing the trade‐off between nature and economics.…”

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Developing legume‐supported cropping systems in Europe: Have we overlooked something?

Murphy‐Bokern¹

2022

Annals of Applied Biology

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Why are legume crops rare in Europe even though they grow well there? This opinion paper brings together concepts from crop physiology, classical economics and sociotechnical theory to address this question. It argues for increased focus on research and innovation on crop performance. The starting point is that trade policy no longer explains the marginalisation of legumes. A more recent premise that mutually supporting social, technical and agricultural factors have combined over time to establish and maintain the current cropping systems is also incomplete. However, these propositions have led to significant investment in research on niche value chains in the hope that these will combine within transition pathways to break through system incumbency that “locks out” legumes. It is argued here that this approach is incomplete for crops because the scaling up and agglomeration of niche processing and marketing activities does not improve the fundamental crop resource capture and conversion processes in the field upon which farm productivity depends. Reconsideration of some economic and crop physiological basics is required. Farmers aim to make rational decisions and to focus on what they do best. The principles behind international trade described in the 19th century and the fundamental biophysical crop‐level processes that were elucidated in the 1960s together explain the cropping choices many European farmers make. We need more focus on raising the on‐farm performance and competitiveness of the legume crops themselves and the farming systems in which they are grown. Efficient, productive legume crops are important also if we are to avoid a trade‐off between environmental gains in Europe and disbenefits elsewhere because of effects on global trade.

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The contribution of research to agricultural policy in Europe

Cited by 15 publications

References 73 publications

Precision Fertilization and Irrigation: Progress and Applications

Precision Fertilization and Irrigation: Progress and Applications

The co-evolution of policy support and farmers behaviour. An investigation on Italian agriculture over the 2008-2019 period

Developing legume‐supported cropping systems in Europe: Have we overlooked something?

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