The effect of decoupling on marginal agricultural systems: Implications for farm incomes, land use and upland ecology

Acs, Szvetlana; Hanley, Nick; Dallimer, Martin; Gaston, Kevin J.; Robertson, G. Philip; Wilson, Paul N.; Armsworth, Paul R.

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2009.07.009

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“…They concluded that the abolition of direct payments would be the hardest for regions with less favourable conditions for agriculture, the least affected would be the relatively competitive sectors and industries with a highly diversified agro-tourist potential, good marketing and sales structure. Acs et al (2010) point to a real risk of land abandonment in mountain areas and reducing the numbers of cattle. Offermann et al (2009) examine the status of organic farms.…”

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Development of farms according to the LFA classification

Lososová¹,

Zdeněk²

2013

AGR ECON-CZECH

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Th e aim of the paper is to assess the situation and development of Czech agriculture by the production and economic ratios of a sample of farms. Th e development is evaluated using a database of farms from the Czech Republic since 2000, divided by the share of land included in the LFA. Th e year 2011 revealed a signifi cant improvement in economic indicators over the previous year. A positive profi t appeared in 95% of enterprises and economic results approached the results of 2007. An important trend is the reduction in the number of workers, when in 2011 the number of workers was equal to 70% to that in 2000, while labour productivity is increasing annually by an average of 7%. In the structure of production, the average farm revealed a revenue growth of crop production, the revenue from livestock production was declining, although the opposite trend appeared in mountain areas. In all categories of farms, there is a growing dependence on subsidies. Although the year 2011 was the second most productive since 2000, the profi t after deducting subsidies was reached by 13% of farms only.

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Section: Methodology and Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Development of farms according to the LFA classification

Lososová¹,

Zdeněk²

2013

AGR ECON-CZECH

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“…According to other recent studies (Acs et al, 2010;Oñate et al, 2007), the decoupling of the CAP subsidies (separated aid from production) might encourage a shift from irrigated to non-irrigated agriculture. Fig.…”

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Integrated assessment of policy interventions for promoting sustainable irrigation in semi-arid environments: A hydro-economic modeling approach

Ferrer

Varela‐Ortega

Purkey

2013

Journal of Environmental Management

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Keywords:Water management Sustainable irrigation Hydro-economic modeling Policy analysis Semi-arid regions Sustaining irrigated agriculture to meet food production needs while maintaining aquatic ecosystems is at the heart of many policy debates in various parts of the world, especially in arid and semi-arid áreas. Researchers and practitioners are increasingly calling for integrated approaches, and policy-makers are progressively supporting the inclusión of ecological and social aspects in water management programs. This paper contributes to this policy debate by providing an integrated economic-hydrologic modeling framework that captures the socio-economic and environmental effects of various policy initiatives and climate variability. This modeling integration includes a risk-based economic optimization model and a hydrologic water management simulation model that have been specified for the Middle Guadiana basin, a vulnerable drought-prone agro-ecological área with highly regulated river systems in southwest Spain. Namely, two key water policy interventions were investigated: the implementation of mínimum environmental ñows (supported by the European Water Framework Directive, EU WFD), and a reduction in the legal amount of water delivered for irrigation (planned measure included in the new Guadiana River Basin Management Plan, GRBMP, still under discussion). Results indícate that current patterns of excessive water use for irrigation in the basin may put environmental ñow demands at risk, jeopardizing the WFD's goal of restoring the 'good ecological status' of water bodies by 2015. Conñicts between environmental and agricultural water uses will be stressed during prolonged dry episodes, and particularly in summer low-ñow periods, when there is an important increase of crop irrigation water requirements. Securing mínimum stream ñows would entail a substantial reduction in irrigation water use for rice cultivation, which might affect the profitability and economic viability of small rice-growing farms located upstream in the river. The new GRBMP could contribute to balance competing water demands in the basin and to increase economic water productivity, but might not be sufficient to ensure the provisión of environmental ñows as required by the WFD. A thoroughly revisión of the basin's water use concession system for irrigation seems to be needed in order to bring the GRBMP in Une with the WFD objectives. Furthermore, the study illustrates that social, economic, institutional, and technological factors, in addition to bio-physical conditions, are important issues to be considered for designing and developing water management strategies. The research initiative presented in this paper demonstrates that hydro-economic models can explicitly intégrate all these issues, constituting a valuable tool that could assist policy makers for implementing sustainable irrigation policies.

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“…The following indicators were included into multi-criteria analysis: technological (yield, share of sold production) (Balana et al, 2011;Uthes et al, 2011;Sauer et al, 2012;Dzikowski, 2013), environmental (expenses for plant protection) (Kriščiukaitienė et al, 2013); economic (production cost, price) (Blanco Fonseca, 2007;Acs et al, 2010;Udagawa et al, 2014); and social (labour input) (Blanco Fonseca, 2007).…”

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Evaluation of Technological, Economic and Social Indicators for Different Farming Practices in Lithuania

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Kriščiukaitienė

Baležentis

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Economics &Amp; Sociology

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The effect of decoupling on marginal agricultural systems: Implications for farm incomes, land use and upland ecology

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Cited by 108 publications

References 20 publications

Development of farms according to the LFA classification

Development of farms according to the LFA classification

Integrated assessment of policy interventions for promoting sustainable irrigation in semi-arid environments: A hydro-economic modeling approach

Evaluation of Technological, Economic and Social Indicators for Different Farming Practices in Lithuania

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