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For FP7 project, the list is provisional as some projects are under negotiation.
FP6- SSP (34 results)
CAPRI-DynaSpat
| Acronym |
CAPRI-DynaSpat |
| Title |
Common Agricultural Policy Regional Impact Assessment – The Dynamic and Spatial Dimension |
| Abstract |
The STREP CAPRI-DynaSpat - Common Agricultural Policy Regional Impact Assessment - The Dynamic Spatial Dimension aims at ex-ante policy assessment of the CAP by maintenance and application of the existing CAPRI modelling system and its improvement in several directions. The project is devoted to six tasks:
(1) regular yearly application of the CAPRI system during the project's lifetime (database update, reference run, scenario writing and CAP impact assessment),
(2) improvement of CAPRI's economic core model by development and validation of a recursive-dynamic version,
(3) development of an employment module for CAPRI,
(4) development of an indicator for energy use in agriculture,
(5) development of a GIS link (soil, climatic and land use map), link and development of a landscape assessment indicator and to a process based model for agricultural Green House Gas emissions and,
(6) full integration of Hungary, Poland and Czech Republic plus a pilot study for the further expansion of CAPRI.
The main objective of the proposal is to provide policy makers and society with reliable ex-ante impact assessment of CAP measures on agricultural income, production and land use, environmental indicators and employment at farm type, regional, national and EU level by regular yearly baseline and scenario analysis. The main instrument is the CAPRI modelling system combining consistently aggregated programming models for farm types at NUTS II level with a spatial multi-commodity model for agricultural world markets, and environmental pressure indicators. The project addresses all elements mentioned in Task 12 'Ex-ante policy assessment of CAP' of Priority 8.1, and relates to other important policy relevant topics as the East expansion of the union, the Kyoto protocol and the multifunctional role of agriculture. Dissemination activities include regular reports to commission services and the public, contributions to scientific conferences and journals and press releases
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| Website |
http://www.ilr1.uni-bonn.de/Agpo/rsrch/dynaspat/dynaspat_e.htm |
| Number of partners |
6 |
| Coordination |
Institute for Agricultural Policy, University of Bonn |
| Country |
Germany |
| Coordinator name |
Wolfgang Britz |
| Instrument |
STREP |
| Start date |
01/03/2004 |
| End date |
28/02/2007 |
| Project cost |
1.14 million euro |
| Project funding |
750218 euro |
MEA-SCOPE
| Acronym |
MEA-SCOPE |
| Title |
Micro-economic instruments for impact assessment of multifunctional agriculture to implement the Model of European Agriculture |
| Abstract |
Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform aims at higher international trade compatibility and better targeting ofsocial, environmental and consumer concerns to ensure the sustainable development of EU agriculture. To optimise the effectiveness and efficiency of CAP reform options towards multifunctional implementations, tools are required to assess agricultural impacts on the multiple functions of European landscapes. The Em?s Model of European Agriculture (MEA) has a multifunctional perspective but policy maker?s lackmultifunctionality impact assessment tools. The proposed project develops such a tool, MEA-Scope that will close the gap between pure ecological or social process models and sect oral macro-econometric or equilibrium models. To ensure compatibility with the MEA, a MEA-specific interpretation of multifunctional will be devised. MEA-Scope will be spatially explicit and will perform impact assessments of agricultural land unseat two scales: farm and landscape. Link three existing micro-economic models that simulate different aspects of farm structure, economics and environmental impact, so enabling joint-production to be predicted, will achieve this. Appropriate scope and detail will be ensured by simultaneous analyses of the regional demands for multiple landscape functions and of end user information needs. MEA-Scope will describe, analyse and evaluate the multifunctional of agricultural production under a multitude of environmental, social and economic conditions. MEA-Scope will here be applied to one exemplary farmingsystem (beef production) for 8 European landscapes including both, agriculturally benign and marginal land in accession countries and EU member states. Beef production is chosen because it is among the most adaptable systems with respect to
(i) natural conditions and
(ii) societal demands on land use functions. This will proof theme-Scope's capacity to assess joint production in different regions. |
| Website |
http://www.mea-scope.org/ |
| Number of partners |
11 |
| Coordination |
ZALF |
| Country |
Germany |
| Coordinator name |
Klaus Müller |
| Instrument |
STREP |
| Start date |
01/05/2004 |
| End date |
31/10/2007 |
| Project cost |
3.12 million euro |
| Project funding |
2.11 million euro |
COMETR
| Acronym |
COMETR |
| Title |
Competitiveness effects of environmental tax reforms |
| Abstract |
The project will undertake an analysis of the competitiveness impacts of green tax reforms at a sectoral level,using modelling frameworks (bottom-up and macro-economic) as well as case studies concerning the existing tax reforms which have taken place in the EU and Candidate countries.The overall perspective is ex-post, in that actual experiences will feed the models, rather than uncertain ex-ante expectations, and this basic perspective constitutes one of the important in novative aspects of the proposal.Conceptual clarification of the competitiveness issue, as well as a concise review of environmental tax reform experience will kick off the project.Five to eight industrial subsectors will be selected on basis of data availability for comparative analysis, and the impact of tax reform designs in six to seven member and accession states be considered.The world market conditions for the particular sectors will be studied carefully so as to identify different degrees of vulnerability.Short-run impacts will be examined via a conventional bottom-up modelling framework, while a more dynamic modelling framework based on the E3ME model of Cambridge Econometrics will be applied to examine both short and long run effects with particular emphasis on competitiveness.It capture inter-industry and other indirect effects, as well as those international competitiveness effects, which cannot be easily accounted for using the bottom-up approach.The goal is to compare short and long-term costs of environmental tax reform.The dynamics of employment, output, external trade and investment in capital and R&D will be tracked along various reform scenarios. A specific analysis of environmental decoupling and the possibility of carbon leakage is carried out.Finally mitigation practices are considered in light of both modelling results and the more qualitative insights provided by case studies on the specific tax reforms and on the world market conditions in specific sectors. |
| Website |
http://www2.dmu.dk/cometr/ |
| Number of partners |
6 |
| Coordination |
National Environmental Research Institute (NERI) |
| Country |
Denmark |
| Coordinator name |
Mikael Skou Andersen |
| Instrument |
STREP |
| Start date |
01/12/2004 |
| End date |
31/05/2007 |
| Project cost |
1.54 million euro |
| Project funding |
988 026 euro |
CEEC AGRI POLICY
| Acronym |
CEEC AGRI POLICY |
| Title |
Agro-economic policy analysis of the accession and the candidate states and the countries of Western Balkan |
| Abstract |
The overall objective of the project is to support the formulation of Community agricultural policies by developing an open and interactive network in agricultural economics. The New Member States (Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuani a, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia) the Candidate countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and Turkey) as well as countries from the Western Balkan (Bosnia Herzegovina and Serbia Montenegro) take part in the project. Organisations from France and the United Kingdo m, specialised in agricultural economics and experienced in working in the Central Eastern Europe Countries also participate in the project. The project has the specified following objectives: 1. To favour the development of the European Research Area 2. To improve interactive relationships between research and policy in agricultural sector 3. To improve the EC with timely and effective scientific inputs for the development of policies 4. To improve information and exploitation of results of the research i n agricultural economics 5. To contribute to defining future support activities for agricultural economic research The project will commence by compiling a register of expertise. A detailed database and a web portal will then be developed. Expert groups w ill be constituted to favour the networking of research organisations in the area of agricultural economics. Three kinds of activities will start after these phases: - Reports, workshops and community work place (forum) will be developed to enhance intera ctivity between researchers and policy makers - Scientific inputs will be provided to the EC (6-monthly report) - Dissemination activities will be performed (newsletter, mail shot). |
| Website |
http://www.europartnersearch.net/agri-policy/ |
| Number of partners |
18 |
| Coordination |
Euroquality |
| Country |
France |
| Coordinator name |
Olivier Chartier |
| Instrument |
SSA |
| Start date |
01/05/2005 |
| End date |
30/04/2007 |
| Project cost |
908 581 euro |
| Project funding |
865 768 euro |
EDIM
| Acronym |
EDIM |
| Title |
European Dairy Industry Model |
| Abstract |
EDIM is a collaborative research project dealing with the economics of the European Dairy Industry. Five partners from Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands are associated in this EC supported research program (April 2004 - September 2005). The main objectives is to design and use complementary modelling tools able to simulate the impact of alternative policy scenarios for the dairy sector over the medium term. Expected Results:
* A comprehensive milk and dairy products database for the EU 25.
* An operational model that simulates the impact of dairy policies on the main market variables for milk and 14 dairy products for the EU-25 and examines their implications for on-farm milk production.
* Additional tools to perform in depth analysis of specific issues, such as the dynamics of farm structure, the location of milk production at regional level and the impact of direct income payments on EU milk supply.
* Simulations of future dairy policy scenarios and interpretation of impacts.
* A network of researchers specialised in the economics of the dairy industry. |
| Website |
http://edim.vitamib.com/ |
| Number of partners |
5 |
| Coordination |
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) |
| Country |
France |
| Coordinator name |
Vincent Requillart |
| Instrument |
STREP |
| Start date |
04/01/2004 |
| End date |
31/12/2005 |
| Project cost |
655 684 euro |
| Project funding |
523 206 euro |
ENFA
| Acronym |
ENFA |
| Title |
European Non-Food Agriculture |
| Abstract |
The ENFA project will establish a dynamic agricultural and forest sector model for the integrated economic and environmental assessment of non-food alternatives in European agriculture and forestry. This tool will be used to analyze market and environmental impacts from the adoption of non-food strategies. Market impacts include supply potentials for agricultural non-food product lines under alternative policy and technology scenarios, supply, price, and trade effects for traditional agricultural and forestry products, and measures of rural community change such as changes in farm welfare, labor demand, and land values. Environmental impact estimates will include measures of emissions pertaining to greenhouse gases, soil erosion, and nutrient leaching as well as biodiversity impacts. To achieve its objectives, the ENFA project will integrate engineering science and micro economic analysis for major non-food production lines with traditional agricultural and forest sector analysis across Europe. The proposed analysis will be intensively linked to many completed and ongoing European research projects and will join leading research institutes in the non-food arena. |
| Website |
http://www.fnu.zmaw.de/European_Non-Food_Agriculture.5700.0.html |
| Number of partners |
14 |
| Coordination |
Hamburg University |
| Country |
Germany |
| Coordinator name |
Uwe Schneider |
| Instrument |
SSA |
| Start date |
01/05/2005 |
| End date |
30/04/2008 |
| Project cost |
914 000 euro |
| Project funding |
914 000 euro |
ESoF
| Acronym |
ESoF |
| Title |
Developing the entrepreneurial skills of farmers |
| Abstract |
This project will examine the economic social and cultural factors hindering or stimulating the development of entrepreneurial skills of farmers. The primary concern of the project is to recommend ways how conditions of the social, economic, political and cultural framework can be changed in order to facilitate the adoption of entrepreneurial skills for farmers and how farmers themselves can improve their entrepreneurial skills.
The guiding idea comprises the persuasion that the kind of necessary entrepreneurial skills is strongly dependent on the strategic orientation of the farm. Besides recommendations a diagnostic tool will be elaborated with which farmers can be positioned according to their entrepreneurial strategy and their entrepreneurial skills. This tool can be used by decision makers to evaluate and advise farmers to become more entrepreneurial, and farmers can assess themselves, learning their strengths and weaknesses concerning entrepreneurship.
Recommendations and the elaborated tool will be based on:
a) an analytical definition and description of relevance of the concept of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial skills for agriculture reflecting the strategic orientations of farms: a segmentation model is developed, which provides the theoretical basis for the overall project and forms the basis for the diagnostic tool.
b) the specification of entrepreneurial skills in relation to the strategic orientation: This analysis will be conducted in case studies following a participatory approach with farmers and representatives of the socio-technical network of farmers.
c) the identification and analysis of the economic, social and cultural factors hindering and stimulating the development of entrepreneurial skills. Again, this analysis will be conducted in case studies and in a participatory way. |
| Website |
http://www.esofarmers.org/project/objectives.html |
| Number of partners |
6 |
| Coordination |
Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) |
| Country |
Switzerland |
| Coordinator name |
Christine Rudmann |
| Instrument |
STREP |
| Start date |
01/04/2005 |
| End date |
31/03/2008 |
| Project cost |
947 289 euro |
| Project funding |
833 988 euro |
EU AGRI MAPPING
| Acronym |
EU AGRI MAPPING |
| Title |
Mapping & Foresight of the European Agricultural & Food Research Capacity |
| Abstract |
Task 6 of the call aims at mapping the European agricultural research capacities. As an exhaustive mapping of the research capacities in the EU-25 would require a considerable effort, this proposal is voluntary focusing on the New Member States and Candidate Countries. This allows to improve the efficiency of the exercise and the quality of the results. Given the structural changes since the early 90's, little is known about the current situation of the research establishments from the Central and Eastern European Countries. This mapping exercise is thus very relevant.
The objectives of the project are to provide reports that: 1) Identify the main players in agricultural research; 2) Describe how is organised agricultural and food research in the NMS and CC and what are the current trends in their development; 3) Formulate recommendations on the developments that would be desirable in agricultural research. To reach these objectives, the approach retained is a survey of the research establishments. The major technical objective of the project EU-AGRI MAPPING is to exhaustively screen research centres for all sub sectors of the agricultural and food research in all CC and NMS. An online, dynamic, free access and multilingual database will be elaborated and used as a tool to conduct the surveys.
As several projects already included mapping exercises, the overall aim is to create a cluster of projects. The long-term objective is to provide a sustainable, access-free and sector-specific database. The database will allow to identify partners, disseminate specific information and organise future consultations of the research community. Organisations from the 10 NMS and the 4 CCs take part in the project. The project is co-ordinated by Euroquality, co-ordinator of several on-going projects aiming at structuring agricultural research in the CEECs. The SSHA will bring expertise in the agrifood sector. |
| Website |
http://www.europartnersearch.net/eu-agri-mapping/index.php?page=main |
| Number of partners |
16 |
| Coordination |
Euroquality |
| Country |
France |
| Coordinator name |
Olivier Chartier |
| Instrument |
SSA |
| Start date |
01/01/2006 |
| End date |
31/12/2007 |
| Project cost |
666 132 euro |
| Project funding |
666 132 euro |
EU-MEDAGPOL
| Acronym |
EU-MEDAGPOL |
| Title |
Impact of agricultural trade liberalisation between the EU and Mediterranean countries |
| Abstract |
The overall objective of this project is to estimate and describe the impacts on European countries of agricultural trade liberalization in the Mediterranean region. The major changes to be expected are increased EU imports of fruits, vegetables and olive oil and increased EU exports to non-EU Mediterranean countries of cereals, meats, and milk products. Estimation of changes in exports of cereals, meats, and milk products will be done using well-established sector model. For fruits, vegetables and olive oil, available quantitative models are not sufficient to properly capture the complexity of the phenomena involved (many different products, various seasonal patterns, complex detailed trade regimes). Expert panels for the Mediterranean countries with substantial export potential will be used to complement modelling approaches done at the country level. These expert panels, assembled on the basis of CIHEAM/Imam?s extensive network of contacts in agric-business, production, academia, etc. throughout the region, will be asked to estimate what the likely changes will be under different liberalization scenarios, which will then be used to estimate impacts on the Em?s producing regions and budget. The project has nine work packages that characterize the agricultural and agro-industry sectors in Mediterranean countries and the EU
(1 and 2); describe and quantify the EU protection systems for the same products
(3);develop specific liberalization scenarios
(4); estimate the production and export potential for each Mediterranean country
(5); quantify changes in European and Mediterranean production, imports, and exports
(6); examine interaction with world markets and international negotiations
(7); estimate changes in European production, incomes, budgets, social changes, etc.
(8); and disseminate results
(9).The consortium consists of well-known institutions from EU member and candidate countries, from other Mediterranean countries. |
| Website |
http://eumed-agpol.iamm.fr/ |
| Number of partners |
9 |
| Coordination |
CIHEAM-IAMM |
| Country |
France |
| Coordinator name |
Florence Jacquet |
| Instrument |
STREP |
| Start date |
01/03/2004 |
| End date |
01/03/2007 |
| Project cost |
1.1 million euro |
| Project funding |
959 875 euro |
EUMercoPol
| Acronym |
EUMercoPol |
| Title |
Analysis of the competitiveness of Mercosur’s key agri-food sectors, comparison of policies and the ex-ante impacts of EU-Mercosur trade liberalisation |
| Abstract |
This EUMercoPol proposal aims to generate sound scientific contributions supporting the formulation and implementation of Community policies. The proposal's three principal objectives are:
1. Analysing the competitiveness of key agri-food sectors in the M ercosur region (Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile, Bolivia) , vis-is the EU commodity systems.
2. Assessment agri-food policies in the context of production, consumption and trade environments, between the Mercosur and EU.
3. Analysing the ex -ante impact of liberalized trade between the EU and Mercosur on markets, budgets, and key indicators of their agricultural sectors.
The proposal's principal expected direct results include:
(1) Databases, working papers, briefs and scientific publication s diffusing new results on the competitiveness of key agri-food sectors in Mercosur and EU.
(2) Databases, papers, policy briefs, and publications on the agriculture policies in the Mercosur and EU.
(3) Databases, working papers, policy briefs and publications diffusing new information on the ex-ante impacts from EU-Mercosur trade liberalization, on EU and Mercosur priority parameters.
(4) New and expanded econometric trade and impact models, for further valorisation in EU policy research.
The consortium includes 12 partners. These include 4 EU partners from 3 countries (Fr, De, Nl), 6 Mercosur countries (Ar, Bo, Br, Cl, Py, Uy) and 2 regional entities (Cepal, IICA). Besides, strong, the consortium relies on multi-disciplinary teams including specialists in ag-policy, agri-food systems, econometrics, food sciences, database and quality management. Project management is by an experienced multi-disciplinary, multi-lingual and multi-site based team, assisted by a Steering Committee. The French CIRAD-Amis/ProsP ER team will coordinate from a current CIRAD project-base in Argentina, assisted by French colleagues based in Brazil, and supported by a project support team at CIRAD's headquarters in Montpelliers. |
| Website |
http://www.eumercopol.org/ |
| Number of partners |
12 |
| Coordination |
CIRAD-Amis, ProsPER |
| Country |
France |
| Coordinator name |
Guy Henry |
| Instrument |
STREP |
| Start date |
01/04/2005 |
| End date |
01/05/2008 |
| Project cost |
1.25 million euro |
| Project funding |
1.07 million euro |
EUROCROP
| Acronym |
EUROCROP |
| Title |
Agricultural Research for Improving Arable Crop Competitiveness |
| Abstract |
EUROCROP aims at setting up a network putting together all stakeholders, to organize a collective research needs analysis to improving the European arable crops competitiveness, and to propose research actions. EUROCROP partnership as represented by the st akeholder board, includes organisations using research, including farmers organizations, as well as organisations providing research, innovation and extension services. Representative organizations of civil society in the field of environment preservation and consumer advocate will be integrated in the partnership at the beginning of the project. To meet its goals EUROCROP will operate according to a cross-cutting approach, first by arable crop (cereals, oilseeds, sugar beets, fibre crops, potatoes, grain l egumes and maize), second by transversal elements of the competitiveness including technical aspects at farming level, farm economics and production costs, outlets and markets, quality of agricultural products, environmental impacts and socio-economic issu es. These topics will be addressed by specialists, in the frame of workshops, according to a common method. The main results of this two and a half years concerted action will be (i) a set of research proposals for policy makers and planers, strengthened i n the course of a final conference opened to a broader audience and (ii) the existence of a European network of specialists, which would continue to work beyond the end of the action to set up research projects. |
| Website |
http://www.eurocrop.cetiom.fr/ |
| Number of partners |
23 |
| Coordination |
CETIOM |
| Country |
France |
| Coordinator name |
Etienne Pilorgé |
| Instrument |
SSA |
| Start date |
01/05/2006 |
| End date |
31/12/2008 |
| Project cost |
605 055 euro |
| Project funding |
599 947euro |
FoodComm
| Acronym |
FoodComm |
| Title |
Key factors influencing economic relationships and communication in European food chains |
| Abstract |
EU's CAP is moving towards freer markets. Reduced market intervention for agricultural products has repercussions on the whole food chain, which might provide new opportunities or challenges for the European food system. In order to be able to benefit from these new developments, a more proactive and self-responsible behaviour of all actors involved in the food chain is necessary. In addition, there is need for analysis of potential risks, benefits and measures of support of the transformation process. Measures to counter arising instabilities in the European food sector and to promote sustainable development of competitive food chains may include the improvement of co-ordination among farmers, processors and retailers by strengthening economic relationships and by intensifying communication. The overall objective of this project is to analyse the role (prevalence, necessity and significance) of economic relationships and communication in selected European food chains and to identify the economic, social and cultural factors which influence co-ordination within these chains. In order to accomplish this objective: (1) a theoretical framework will be constructed; (2) food chain systems in six countries will be reviewed; (3) a representative cross-country, multi-commodity survey of farmers, processors and retailers will be conducted based on the outcome of the previous two workpackages; (4) the collected data, by generating estimators for population parameters and testing research hypotheses, will be analysed, leading also to the identification of issues for further in-depth study; (5) country-specific research of these issues will be conducted; (6) all findings will be evaluated and recommendations for policy making and business will be derived focusing on how economic relationships along the food chain may be improved; (7) the project results will be disseminated to business and policy decision-makers, as well as to the research audience and the general public. |
| Website |
http://www.foodcomm-eu.net/ |
| Number of partners |
7 |
| Coordination |
University of Bonn, Department of Agricultural and Food Market Research |
| Country |
Germany |
| Coordinator name |
Monika Hartmann |
| Instrument |
STREP |
| Start date |
01/03/2005 |
| End date |
31/05/2008 |
| Project cost |
1.23 million euro |
| Project funding |
945 000 euro |
FOOTPRINT
| Acronym |
FOOTPRINT |
| Title |
Agri-environmental Footprint: Development of a common generic methodology for evaluating the effectiveness of European Agri-environmental Schemes |
| Abstract |
AE-FOOTPRINT will investigate and develop a common methodology for the environmental evaluation of the level of achievement of common objectives across European Agri-Environmental Schemes (AESs) which can be customised for the evaluation of locally-specific AES objectives. The methodology centres on the construction of an Agri-environmental Footprint Index (AFI) that can be used to measure and compare environmental impact of AESs by aggregating the measurement of a selected range of agri-environmental indicators. A series of tasks will be conducted to support the development of the AFI. A desk-based review will identify agri-environmental objectives that are common, shared or unique across a representative selection of EU Member States; agri-environmental indicators will then be selected that correspond to these various objectives. Consultations with national AES experts and stakeholders will allocate weighting factors to individual objectives; differences in weighting factors will therefore reflect the relative priority of national/regional- level objectives. In this way, customisation of the AFI can be achieved. Consultation exercises will be an important opportunity to engage with and inform a variety of stakeholders, policymakers and implementation agencies. We will assess the availability and utility of existing information-gathering exercises and their data sets e.g. national and EU-wide farm surveys. A feasibility analysis of the AFI will identify and prioritise any information gaps, and consider the benefits of alternative methods of implementing the AFI. We will use available data for appropriate indictors to calculate AFI scores to measure and compare the environmental performance of AES- participating and non-participating farms. AE-FOOTPRINT will also explore the use of the AFI as a wider policy tool for the assessment of environmental impact of different farming systems. |
| Website |
http://www.footprint.rdg.ac.uk/en/home_en.html |
| Number of partners |
8 |
| Coordination |
University of Reading, Centre for Agri-Environmental Research |
| Country |
United Kingdom |
| Coordinator name |
Simon Mortimer |
| Instrument |
STREP |
| Start date |
01/04/2005 |
| End date |
31/03/2008 |
| Project cost |
1.49 million euro |
| Project funding |
1.36 million euro |
GENEDEC
| Acronym |
GENEDEC |
| Title |
A quantitative and qualitative assessment of the socio-economic and environmental impacts of decoupling of direct payments on agricultural production, markets and land use in the EU |
| Abstract |
An assessment of the proposed decoupling of direct payments, under consideration in the Mid-Term-Review of the CAP, has to be based on their potential benefits and the likely costs including marketable and non-marketable goods (such as environmental impacts) and services and the action of the economic decision-makers in the agricultural sector. This project has been designed to undertakesocio-economic and environmental assessments of such measures, by using a set of existing and modified models for various levels of analyses.
For economic analysis, farm-level mathematical programming and other models incorporating technical inputs (farm systems, agronomic and livestock characteristics and constraints) form the core of the proposed approach. The large technical inputs required by the economic models and the evaluation of impacts will be based on crop and livestock models linked to sets of databases (soil and climate particularly provided by the JRC), which are now accessible for the entire EU including the FADN farm accounts database. Different case studies will be implemented all around Europe. Sociologic and quantitative methodologies will be used to better understand the behaviour of the different farm family households in their specific environment and their adaptation strategy due to the CAP reform.
The project team has internationally acknowledged expertise in such multidisciplinary research, thus enabling them to provide meaningful information to policymakers. While the proposal is oriented toward quantitative evaluation, the guidelines and information provided to policy makers will be enhanced by a more general socio-economic overview, which will point out advantages and limits of the results. During the project, social, employment and regional implications of decoupling of direct payments will be addressed fully by the use of qualitative research methods including case studies, focus groups and meetings with experts. |
| Website |
http://www.grignon.inra.fr/economie-publique/genedec/ |
| Number of partners |
10 |
| Coordination |
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) |
| Country |
France |
| Coordinator name |
Pierre Jayet |
| Instrument |
STREP |
| Start date |
01/03/2004 |
| End date |
31/08/2007 |
| Project cost |
2.06 million euro |
| Project funding |
1.38 million euro |
GoFor
| Acronym |
GoFor |
| Title |
New modes of Governance for Sustainable Forestry in Europe |
| Abstract |
Under the term "new modes of governance", policy makers in Europe are striving for less intrusive means of achieving policy goals. As regards the implementation in forest policy-making, the concept of "National Forest Programmes" (NFPs) has been recognized as a promising tool. So far, neither comparative analyses nor systematic evaluations of the effectiveness of these practices have been carried out. The main objective of the GoFOR project is to evaluate new modes of governance as a basis for policy relevant conclusions and recommendations in order to safeguard sustainable forest management in Europe. Based on theoretical arguments and empirical evidence, the project will first elaborate an enlarged set of criteria that operationalise the concept of "new modes of governance" and its constituting elements(i.e., public participation, inter-sectoral and multi-level co-ordination, adaptive and iterative policy-making and the use of accountable expertise). The project will then give a comprehensive overview of new modes of governance. For that, current and evolving practices of governance (both in forestry and in "adjacent" sectors) will be analysed in a cross-national comparative research design with case studies coming from ten European countries. The countries are to be chosen, first, on the basis of the specific and complementary theoretical expertise of the partners involved and, second, by paying attention to a high heterogeneity in country-specific conditions. These cross-national and cross-sectoral comparisons which will draw on qualitative as well as quantitative data will allow the identification of "best practices" and a critical evaluation of the transferability to other sectoral or national contexts in order to foster mutual learning processes. Results will provide scientific support for the development, implementation, as well as evaluation of modern policy approaches to further promote sustainable forestry and rural development. |
| Website |
http://www.boku.ac.at/gofor/ |
| Number of partners |
10 |
| Coordination |
University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU) |
| Country |
Austria |
| Coordinator name |
Michael Pregernig |
| Instrument |
STREP |
| Start date |
01/12/2004 |
| End date |
30/11/2007 |
| Project cost |
1.93 million euro |
| Project funding |
1.78 million euro |
HAIR
| Acronym |
HAIR |
| Title |
Harmonised environmental indicators for pesticide risk |
| Abstract |
This project will support Community policies for sustainable agriculture by providing a harmonised European approach for indicators of the overall risk of pesticides. It will integrate European scientific expertise on the use, emissions, environmental fate, and the impact of pesticides on agro-ecosystems and human health, in order to develop improved indicators, which address the limitations of existing approaches. The main deliverable of the project is a set of harmonised environmental and human health risk indicators, provided in an easy to use software package. The proposed tool will include methods to predict environmental fate and exposure, and the resulting acute and chronic risks for aquatic and terrestrial organisms, for groundwater, for public health and for applicators of the pesticides. Consistent database structures will be developed for soil, climate, land use, agricultural practice, pesticide use and ecotoxicological data, to enable harmonised use of the indicators by all EU member states and candidate states. State-of-the art methods will bemuse to extrapolate from test animals to humans and wildlife, and the indicators will include chronic risks based on sub-lethal effects as well as acute risks. The project will use existing datasets to systematically evaluate the validation status of the indicators, including information gathered by regional and national organisations. The indicator outputs will be available on different scales, providing high resolution results at thecatchment/regional level, taking account of local conditions of soil, climate etc; and also aggregated and integrated results at the European level. The indicators will provide new and powerful assessment tools for monitoring and managing the overall risks of pesticides. This will contribute directly to Agenda 2000 aims for sustainable agriculture, and to the 6thEnvironment Action Programme's Thematic Strategy on the Sustainable Use of Plant Protection Products. |
| Website |
http://www.rivm.nl/rvs/risbeoor/Modellen/HAIR.jsp |
| Number of partners |
20 |
| Coordination |
National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) |
| Country |
Netherlands |
| Coordinator name |
Robert Luttik |
| Instrument |
STREP |
| Start date |
01/01/2004 |
| End date |
31/03/2007 |
| Project cost |
2.69 million euro |
| Project funding |
1.68 million euro |
IDEMA
| Acronym |
IDEMA |
| Title |
The Impact of Decoupling and Modulation in the Enlarged Union: a sectoral and farm level assessment |
| Abstract |
The research aims to develop methods and tools to provide a comprehensive socio-economic assessment of the impact of decoupling and modulation on the EU farm sector. The project will assess the impact of decoupling on demand and supply, trade, localisation of production, land use, environment, land markets, structural change, farm income, and farmers' entry/exit behaviour. Since no single methodological approach is able to take into account all aspects of this issue, the project is organised around three complementary approaches. These approaches are:
(a) survey-based analysis of farmers' strategic decisions,
(b) dynamic farm level/regional modelling and
(c) sector level/general equilibrium modelling. A survey for analysing farmers' strategic behaviour will be developed and tested in selected current and new Member States, using a stratified sub-sample of each country'sFADN population. Survey responses will be analysed in conjunction with FADN information. A spatially dynamic, agent-based model, Acropolis, will be enhanced and adapted to selected regions typical for the different natural androecia-economic conditions of the enlarged Europe. Enhancing the farm-based model allows for analysis of structural change and impacts on farm incomes. An environmental impact module, linking land use and production technologies to indicators of environmental quality, will also be developed. A partial equilibrium model (ESIM) and country specific general equilibrium models, for the new members and the EU-15, will be further developed. These models will be extended to include a representation of land markets. Farmers' investment decisions and labour supply will be modelled, accounting for imperfections in capital and labour markets.
Simulations will quantify impacts on production, consumption and trade. The diversity of regions covered by the project will make it possible to synthesise policy implications relevant for the challenges facing European agriculture. |
| Website |
http://www.sli.lu.se/IDEMA/idemahome.asp |
| Number of partners |
9 |
| Coordination |
Swedish Institute for Food and Agricultural Economics |
| Country |
Sweden |
| Coordinator name |
Ewa Rabinowicz |
| Instrument |
STREP |
| Start date |
01/01/2004 |
| End date |
31/12/2006 |
| Project cost |
1.54 million euro |
| Project funding |
1.36 million euro |
Income Stabilisation
| Acronym |
Income Stabilisation |
| Title |
Design and economic impact of risk management tools for European agriculture |
| Abstract |
In a framework of changing agricultural risks, an enlarging European Union, changing views about eligible forms of income support, changing attitudes towards ad hoc disaster relief and continuing developments at private risk management markets, this project analyses the opportunities of different risk management tools for stabilising farm incomes.
We first quantify the risk exposure of farm households in a selection of current and future Member States of the European Union. Individual farm data are analysed as well as data on off-farm incomes. Next, we study the impact of future CAP and WTO scenarios on farmers' risk exposure and (allowed forms of) risk management. A farm-level simulation model illustrates the impact of various scenarios on income volatility and crisis risk. Thirdly, the project reviews successes and failures of historic and current risk management instruments, both within EU Member States as well as in non-EU countries.
The review is based on reported results in literature completed with up to date views from experts. Next, we deal with farmers perceptions. (New) risk management instruments may fail if there is little interest of farmers, for instance because they perceive risks to be small, believe governments to intervene, or just find the instrument too costly. The economic impact of prospective risk management instruments, both at farm level and in terms of budgetary consequences, is quantified with a risk programming and a simulation model respectively. Given a synthesis of the project's results and a last fine-tuning in a closing workshop, the project concludes by providing the Commission with a list of viable risk management instruments, including recommendations for the design and implementation of such instruments. |
| Website |
http://www.incomestabilisation.org/ |
| Number of partners |
7 |
| Coordination |
Wageningen University |
| Country |
Netherlands |
| Coordinator name |
Ruud Huirne |
| Instrument |
STREP |
| Start date |
01/04/2005 |
| End date |
31/03/2008 |
| Project cost |
1.14 million euro |
| Project funding |
866 585 euro |
ITAES
| Acronym |
ITAES |
| Title |
Integrated Tools to design and implement Agro Environmental Schemes |
| Abstract |
This proposal is related to the design of optimal Agro Environmental Schemes (AESs). It emphasises a series ofcrucial issues among which, expected environmental impacts, transaction costs and institutional arrangements deserve an intensive research effort. As are designed, implemented, monitored and enforced according to heterogeneous patterns that reflects agricultural and environmental diversity as well as institutional differences across Europe. Both environmental effectiveness and economic efficiency are often questionable. A clear understanding of theses issues requires an integrated analysis of farmer's behaviour, institutional arrangements and environmental impacts. The first step of the project is a comprehensive comparison of case-study areas in order to link institutional and contractual arrangements with farmers' uptake and the total cost of As, including administrative costs.
Indeed, As with the same targets are implemented in very different institutional settings and may lead to contrasted environmental and economic outcomes. A second step deals with the modelling and empirical analysis of farmer's behaviour according to different governance attributes of As, to explain the interactions between the type of contractual arrangement and the private transaction costs. Based on exactingness, the simulation of alternative schemes would be carried out. A specific objective is to assess the role of the type of contract and eligibility rules on the provision of environmental goods in a given area. The final step addresses the integration of all available information in a common framework. Expert panel opinion, collected by the Delphi method, will complement the available data measuring AES environmental impacts. Multi criteria analyses will be applied in order to integrate multidisciplinary data, the final outcome being helpful for policy making at different levels including the local one. |
| Website |
http://merlin.lusignan.inra.fr/ITAES/website |
| Number of partners |
9 |
| Coordination |
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) |
| Country |
France |
| Coordinator name |
Pierre Dupraz |
| Instrument |
STREP |
| Start date |
01/01/2004 |
| End date |
31/03/2007 |
| Project cost |
2.01 million euro |
| Project funding |
1.83 million euro |
LUMOCAP
| Acronym |
LUMOCAP |
| Title |
Dynamic land use change modelling for CAP impact assessment on the rural landscape |
| Abstract |
LUMOCAP aims at delivering an operational tool for assessing land use changes and their impact on the rural landscape related to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The core of the system is a dynamic Cellular Automata based land use model enabling the user to enter policy options under a specific set of natural and socio-economic conditions as external driving forces, to formulate potential land use scenarios, and to assess their impact on the quality of rural landscapes through the analysis of selected landscape indicators. It also enables identifying land use change caused by non sustainable agricultural systems. The end product is an open-ended, transparent, user-friendly PC based analytical system, operating at different temporal and embedded spatial scales enabling to input data, modify decisional rules and to generate, visualise and analyse spatial output interactively. As agriculture covers about half of the EU-territory, the CAP is a main driver determining land-use structure and landscape quality. It aims at ensuring adequate market prices and satisfactory income to farmers and at sustainable rural development, including preservation of landscapes through agri-environmental schemes. Increasingly CAP aims at maintaining agricultural activity in high nature value areas to avoid degradation of the associated landscapes and the abandonment of land. The LUMOCAP project directly contributes to an increased efficiency and rationality in meeting these objectives. The project focuses on the relations between the CAP and landscape changes and emphasizes the spatio-temporal dimension of the former. The land use model will be calibrated and its utility will be tested on historical data characterizing changes in the period 1990-2000 (ex-post). Next it will be run to asses policy development scenarios for the period 2000-2015 (ex-ante) by forecasting the future spatial distribution of land-use/cover and related landscape indicators. |
| Website |
http://www.riks.nl/projects/LUMOCAP |
| Number of partners |
4 |
| Coordination |
Research Instituut voor Kennissystemen (RIKS) |
| Country |
Netherlands |
| Coordinator name |
Hedwig Van Delden |
| Instrument |
STREP |
| Start date |
01/05/2005 |
| End date |
31/08/2008 |
| Project cost |
1.29 million euro |
| Project funding |
773 000 euro |
MapStArt
| Acronym |
MapStArt |
| Title |
Modelling Agricultural Policies: State of the Art and New Challenges |
| Abstract |
At regular intervals, various national and internationals institutions carry out evalutaions of the effectiveness of policy tools. This is because agricultural policy may be considered "work in progress", where the tools created by the policy makers are the result of a continuous process of adaptation that follows the changes in the referred socio-economic framework, and the orientation of agricultural policy thtat reflects precise internal policy choices in different groups of countries. The availability of analysis tools that can follow the evolutions of the envisaged scenarios has therefore become important, in order to be ready to face the needs of both public and private players. In this sense, we would to organise a seminar on agricultural policies evalutaion tools. This is a logical follow-up to the successful 65th EAAE seminar held in Bonn in 2000, which represented an important reference point for European research in the field of agricultural policy analysis. Furthermore, the seminar wishes to offer the chance for a meeting, one year after the start of the sixth framework programme, and particularly Action 8 "Policy-oriented research", providing the opportunity for researchers to discuss the methodologies they use in their own research. The objective of the seminar is to discuss theretical and empirical contributions for the review of models used in the assessment o policies that support agricultural sector and regulate production of marketable and non-marketable products (commodities, public goods and externalities). The seminar will accept papers focusing on the role of models in assessing changes in transition economies. More in details, it will be accept papers that will discuss agricultural policy tools and developpe perspective in order to use these tools to monitor and evaluate whether the agricultural policies are effectively moving in the direction of EU policy makers or whether they create new distorsion and negative effects. |
| Website |
http://economia.unipr.it/de/ecagro/IT/libro.html |
| Number of partners |
9 |
| Coordination |
Università degli Studi di Parma |
| Country |
Italy |
| Coordinator name |
Filippo Arfini |
| Instrument |
SSA |
| Start date |
01/06/2004 |
| End date |
31/05/2005 |
| Project cost |
38820 euro |
| Project funding |
38820 euro |
MEACAP
| Acronym |
MEACAP |
| Title |
Impact of Environmental Agreements on the CAP |
| Abstract |
The study has four primary objectives.
1.To make an assessment of the exact obligations falling on the Community with respect to agriculture in the fulfillment of commitments under the Kyoto Protocol and the CBD, clarifying how agriculture could contribute relative to other sectors of the economy and land users.
2. To undertake an analysis of the most appropriate adaptations and innovations in the agricultural sector required meeting the new objectives and obligations. This needs to be achieved within a consistent, methodical framework. It will focus on efficiency, particularly in economic terms, effectiveness, concerning different environmental outcomes and compatibility with other objectives and constraints, at the farm and wider national and EU levels. Interactions between CBD and Kyoto Protocol driven measures need to be exposed and analysed. Account will be taken of a wide range of conditions in Europe, both in existing and new Member States. Afforestation and forest management issues need to be considered alongside agricultural adaptations.
3. An assessment of how far these changes at farm level and upwards require alterations in policy, both at the national and EU levels. Policy change may be needed in the environmental, agricultural, forestry, research, regional support or other policy domains. The main focus will be on agricultural and rural development policies, especially those within the CAP. Specific measures of relevance to Candidate Countries need to be identified. |
| Website |
http://www.ieep.eu/projectminisites/meacap/index.php |
| Number of partners |
9 |
| Coordination |
Institute for European Environmental Policy |
| Country |
United Kingdom |
| Coordinator name |
David Baldock |
| Instrument |
STREP |
| Start date |
01/04/2004 |
| End date |
31/03/2007 |
| Project cost |
1.94 million euro |
| Project funding |
1.42 million euro |
MEA-SCOPE
| Acronym |
MEA-SCOPE |
| Title |
Micro-economic instruments for impact assessment of multifunctional agriculture to implement the Model of European Agriculture |
| Abstract |
Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform aims at higher international trade compatibility and better targeting ofsocial, environmental and consumer concerns to ensure the sustainable development of EU agriculture. To optimise the effectiveness and efficiency of CAP reform options towards multifunctional implementations, tools are required to assess agricultural impacts on the multiple functions of European landscapes. The Ems Model of European Agriculture (MEA) has a multifunctional perspective but policy makers lack multifunctionality impact assessment tools. The proposed project develops such a tool, MEA-Scope that will close the gap between pure ecological or social process models and sectoral macro-econometric or equilibrium models. To ensure compatibility with the MEA, a MEA-specific interpretation of multifunctional will be devised. MEA-Scope will be spatially explicit and will perform impact assessments of agricultural land unseat two scales: farm and landscape. Link three existing micro-economic models that simulate different aspects of farm structure, economics and environmental impact, so enabling joint-production to be predicted, will achieve this. Appropriate scope and detail will be ensured by simultaneous analyses of the regional demands for multiple landscape functions and of end user information needs. MEA-Scope will describe, analyse and evaluate the multifunctional of agricultural production under a multitude of environmental, social and economic conditions. MEA-Scope will here be applied to one exemplary farming system (beef production) for 8 European landscapes including both, agriculturally benign and marginal land in accession countries and EU member states. Beef production is chosen because it is among the most adaptable systems with respect to (i) natural conditions and (ii) societal demands on land use functions. This will proof theme-Scope's capacity to assess joint production in different regions. |
| Website |
http://www.mea-scope.org/ |
| Number of partners |
11 |
| Coordination |
Centre for Agricultural Landscape and Land Use Studies |
| Country |
Germany |
| Coordinator name |
Katharina Helming |
| Instrument |
STREP |
| Start date |
01/05/2004 |
| End date |
31/10/2007 |
| Project cost |
3.12 million euro |
| Project funding |
2.11 million euro |
MEDFROL
| Acronym |
MEDFROL |
| Title |
Market and Trade Policies for Mediterranean Agriculture: The case of fruit/vegetable and olive oil |
| Abstract |
Agriculture is a significant economic activity in the Mediterranean basin. For millennia, the cultivation of fruit and vegetables and olives has been of fundamental importance in Mediterranean culture. The proposed project will analyse the macroeconomic environment and the agricultural sector of the thirteen Mediterranean, non-EUcountries, namely Malta, Turkey, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Cyprus, Lebanon, Libya, Syria, Israel, Gaza Strip and West Bank, Jordan. More specifically, the project will:
- Provide a quantitative and qualitative insight of their agricultural sectors with analytical and up-to-date descriptive statistics, presentation of national agricultural policies and description of relevant supply chains.
- Compare the fruit/vegetable and olive oil sector in these regions with EU countries that produce similar products and stipulate their future course.
- Provide analytical tools for assessing potential impacts of trade liberalisation with the EU by applying four different models.
- Evaluate the consequences of trade liberalisation on EU as a whole (consumer prices, market effects, budget burden) as well as on individual Member States and generate appropriate policy recommendations.
To achieve these objectives, multidisciplinary analysis will be applied. Productivity and efficiency analysis will allow the assessment of efficient and inefficient application of technology in the production of fruit/vegetable and olive oil. Consumer demand analysis will be conducted in the European market so as to analyse Mediterranean countries' export performance and determine future trends and possible impact on EU producing countries. Additionally, a trade model incorporating policy effects will be constructed in order to assess likely impacts of agree trade area between the EU and the Med. regions under different scenarios |
| Website |
http://medfrol.maich.gr/pages/main |
| Number of partners |
9 |
| Coordination |
Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania |
| Country |
Greece |
| Coordinator name |
George Baourakis |
| Instrument |
STREP |
| Start date |
01/04/2004 |
| End date |
31/03/2007 |
| Project cost |
1.17 million euro |
| Project funding |
1.17 million euro |
New 2092/91
| Acronym |
New 2092/91 |
| Title |
Research to support revision of the EU Regulation on organic agriculture |
| Abstract |
In the last decades organic agriculture has undergone significant growth and development, and now exhibits organic industries and international trade. There is a large number of different standards, labels and certification bodies, and this is confusing for consumers, traders and the organic farming industry. The EEC reg. 2092/91 may be of high importance for the credibility and harmonisation of organic standards in Europe. The overall objective of this project is to provide recommendations for development of the EU regulation for organic agriculture and for the envisaged European action plan for organic food and farming. Basic ethical values and value differences in organic agriculture will be identified and a procedure for balancing and integrating these values in revisions of the EEC 2092/91 will be developed (WP2). An organic standards database that enables comparison of national and international standards with the EEC 2092/91 will be established, and the exposed differences will be analysed (WP3). These outcomes should help identify trade barriers, provide a better understanding of the ongoing development of organic agriculture and how it can be regulated, enable regionalisation of the organic production and support harmonisation as well as simplification of the EU regulation.
The project will also provide specific recommendations on the derogations of the use of conventional feed (WP4) and seed (WP5) in the EU regulation. The availability of organic seeds and propagation materials will be surveyed and information exchange and decision criteria for the seed regime will be developed. The supply and demand of organic feeds and feed additives will be surveyed and evaluation criteria for specific feed and feed additives will be developed. Implementation of the results will be by means of a web page and workshops in collaboration with the Commission (WP6). |
| Website |
http://www.organic-revision.org/ |
| Number of partners |
9 |
| Coordination |
Danish Research Centre for Organic Farming |
| Country |
Denmark |
| Coordinator name |
Erik Steen Kristensen |
| Instrument |
STREP |
| Start date |
01/03/2004 |
| End date |
28/02/2007 |
| Project cost |
1.49 million euro |
| Project funding |
868 654 euro |
ORGAP
| Acronym |
ORGAP |
| Title |
European Action Plan of Organic Food and Farming |
| Abstract |
The overall objective of this project is to give a scientific support in the implementation of the proposed European Action Plan for the further development of Organic Food and Farming in Europe. This will be achieved by the identification of a set of suitable indicators and concepts as a basis for the development of an integrated evaluation tool to assess the long-term and short-term effects of the implementation of the EU Action plan for Organic Food and Agriculture . The project consists of the following specific objectives and work packages: - Development of a toolbox for EU and national administration to evaluate and monitor the implementation of the European Action Plan along the whole food chain for the following areas: information, training and education; research; production, processing, market development, certification, public expenditures. - Testing of the evaluation toolbox on a selected number of ongoing national action plans and identification of conflict areas between national and EU Action Plan targets concluding in policy recommendation to the Commission and national authorities. - Early assessment of potential risks and problems associated with the implementation of the EU Action Plan and test initially the evaluation toolbox on the European level when the European Action plan is in place. - Policy analysis for the implementation processes and procedures. - Recommendations for different actors elaborated with involvement of essential stakeholders The project partnership consists of 10 partners from 9 countries, covering different disciplines, stakeholder views and experiences with national action plans for Organic Agriculture. The project will strongly support EU and member states in the implementation of Action Plans for Organic Food and farming. |
| Website |
http://www.orgap.org/ |
| Number of partners |
10 |
| Coordination |
Research Institute for Organic Agriculture (FiBL) |
| Country |
Switzerland |
| Coordinator name |
Otto Schmid |
| Instrument |
SSA |
| Start date |
01/05/2005 |
| End date |
30/04/2008 |
| Project cost |
878 323 euro |
| Project funding |
878 323 euro |
SASSPO
| Acronym |
SASSPO |
| Title |
Agriculture for sustainable development: A dialogue on societal demand, pressures and options for policy |
| Abstract |
The big challenges in facing the CAP require co-operation between actors in the fields of agricultural, rural development and agri-environmental policy and their overlaying policies. In this project, co-operation will be strengthened by bringing together scientist, policy makers, producers and other relevant stakeholders to discuss the achievements of scientific support to agricultural policies in Europe, as well as bringing in the future needs. The project aims at assisting research in its task to give the decision makers the proper tools needed to develop future policies in a way that meets social, economic and environmental objectives in an integrated way. Scientific support will be arranged by assembling background documentation and by pulling together existing information on the integrated approach to agricultural policy. Based on background notes, two policy dialogue seminars will be organised. Meetings are guided by a facilitator and aspire to produce concrete outputs i.e. guidance to government, a proposed regulation, a plan or a strategy. The goal is to improve public policies by systematically reviewing the major proposals using analytical framework designed to ensure appropriate and adequate consideration of the impacts and implications for each sector influence by the change. The project will increase understanding of the critical linkages between research on agricultural, rural and environmental issues, which is the key issue in making sustainable and integrated polices. In addition, the project is designed to deliver new information to the relevant decision-makers and policymakers. Furthermore, it will facilitate sharing of experiences different policy actors from all EU countries including fields of expertise that will be required. Essentially, the project aims at safeguarding that the scientific work done also on the CAP is focussed on the most pressing issues at stake, and that the understanding thus created gets channelled to policy-making. |
| Website |
http://www.mtt.fi/sasspo/ |
| Number of partners |
2 |
| Coordination |
Agrifood Research Finland (MTT) |
| Country |
Finland |
| Coordinator name |
Hilkka Vihinen |
| Instrument |
SSA |
| Start date |
01/01/2006 |
| End date |
31/12/2006 |
| Project cost |
152 010 euro |
| Project funding |
130 000 euro |
SIGMEA
| Acronym |
SIGMEA |
| Title |
Sustainable Introduction of GMOs into European Agriculture |
| Abstract |
This project studies temporal and spatial gene flow across Europe in order to determine the measures needed for the co-existence of GM and non-GM production systems. Crops selected for the study are maize, oilseed rape, beet and wheat in both seed and crop production systems, The partnership will exploit information from recent and current national research programmes as well as generating new research in the project. The results will include:
1. Methods for detecting GM plants/products, methods (including models) for monitoring and measuring seed and pollen mediated gene flow and predicting levels of impacts on whole farm and regional scales.
2. Measures needed to segregate GM from other cropping systems, at the farm and regional scale, including changes in agronomic practices, new investments in equipment and machinery, zoning of crop production, the practicality and cost of these measures, including testing, authentication and stewardship of crops.
3. The socio-economic impacts of introducing GM crops into certain regions including increased costs on both the non-GM and GM sectors, the relationships between farmers adopting different technologies, constraints on farmers, farm saved seed implications, liability for purity of crops, conflicts and disputes between farmers. The results will inform all sectors of European agriculture and help with decision making at local, regional, national and European level on the management of farming systems in relation to GM and non- GM cropping. |
| Website |
http://sigmea.group.shef.ac.uk/ |
| Number of partners |
44 |
| Coordination |
National Institute of Agricultural Botany |
| Country |
United Kingdom |
| Coordinator name |
Jeremy Sweet |
| Instrument |
STREP |
| Start date |
03/05/2004 |
| End date |
02/05/2007 |
| Project cost |
7.54 million euro |
| Project funding |
4.55 million euro |
SoFar
| Acronym |
SoFar |
| Title |
Social Services in Multifunctional Farms (Social Farming) |
| Abstract |
Since ever, agricultural and rural world, all over the European countries, has developed experiences promoting diverse practices and forms of solidarity, social assistance and social inclusion. Particularly we may speak of social farming (or "care farming" or "green care") to describe those farming practices that are aimed to concur towards disadvantaged people's rehabilitation and care and/or towards the integration of those people with "low contractual capacity" (i.e.: psychophysical disabilities, convicts, drug addicts, minors, emigrants).
Social farming appears as an evolving, dynamic scenario, which is gaining increasing attention from multiple stakeholders in recent times. On one hand, this results from a new, widespread positive perception of agricultural and rural resources, leading to a crescent interest about the effects of natural spaces and agricultural areas on the social, physical and psychic well being of people; health institutions are keen on finding alternative practices, more embedded in the social contexts. On the other hand, social farming represents a new chance for farmers to carry out alternative services, broadening the scope of their activities and their role in society. The integration between agricultural practices and social services may also allow new sources of income for farmers, sharpening up the image of agriculture in society at the same time, and favouring the development of new relations between rural and urban citizens
The overall aim of this project is to support the building of a new institutional environment for social farming, providing linkage of research to practitioners / rural players and bringing diverse European experiences closer, in order to confront, exchange and coordinate. It aims at creating a platform around the topic, engaging diverse key-players with world of research, which can support the designing of future policies at regional and European levels. |
| Website |
http://sofar.unipi.it/ |
| Number of partners |
8 |
| Coordination |
Dipartimento di Produzione Animale, University of Pisa |
| Country |
Italy |
| Coordinator name |
Francesco Di Iacovo |
| Instrument |
SSA |
| Start date |
01/05/2006 |
| End date |
31/01/2009 |
| Project cost |
537 850 euro |
| Project funding |
485 580 euro |
TOP-MARD
| Acronym |
TOP-MARD |
| Title |
Towards a Policy Model of Multifunctional Agriculture and Rural Development |
| Abstract |
Multifunctional agriculture is a key issue for EU (15 and 25) Agricultural and Rural Development policies and the Doha Round. This research will develop the concept of multifunctionality as a rural development policy instrument that is sensitive to economic, social, cultural, environmental and geographical context in an enlarged European Union. It will identify and analyse multiple functions in a range of rural contexts, quantifying production relationships between related public and private goods and services and assessing the linkages between these multiple functions and the development of rural areas and their quality of life and environment, and other important non-market functions and outputs ('good' and 'bad'). It will analyse how multiple functions and relationships between them - vary as to types and scales of farming, farming 'styles', gender and other characteristics of farm households, and the nature of the rural context in which they are produced and (partly) consumed. It will identify and analyse the influence of different EU, national and local policies on these relationships, functions and linkages.
The Stella© software will be used to assist with the building and explication of a Policy Model of Multifunctional Agriculture and Rural Development. The research will suggest how payments related to non-market outputs, forming a key focus in the Rural Development Regulation and future reforms following the CAP Mid-Term Review, might be 'modulated' according to the likely production of such outputs in different farm, household and rural circumstances. The research will thus assist the development of EU agricultural, rural development, social and cohesion, and trade policy, and provide a basic model that facilitates more precise policy targeting and a structured examination of the relationships between potential or actual policy changes and (potential) changes in the multiple functions of agriculture and the sustainable development of rural areas. |
| Website |
http://www.policyweb.uhi.ac.uk/topmard/ |
| Number of partners |
11 |
| Coordination |
University of Aberdeen |
| Country |
United Kingdom |
| Coordinator name |
John Bryden |
| Instrument |
STREP |
| Start date |
01/03/2005 |
| End date |
31/05/2008 |
| Project cost |
2.5 million euro |
| Project funding |
2.06 million euro |
TRADEAG
| Acronym |
TRADEAG |
| Title |
Agricultural Trade Agreements |
| Abstract |
The project will deliver EU25 decision makers information, data, indicators, quantitative instruments as well as empirical expertise (synthetic reports, briefing notes, etc.) on regional, bilateral and multilateral trade agreements of the EU25 in the agricultural sector. The purpose is to provide information (datasets, indicators, simulations), objective assessments on key questions in ongoing negotiations (degree of openness of the EU25, efficiency of the EU25 agreements and impact on developing countries, etc.) and to deliver tools for simulating the effect of future agreements on trade and welfare, as well as their impact on the Common Agricultural Policy. The expected outputs include:
- a set of detailed data bases on EU25 tariffs, barriers, trade, including those under preferential agreements;
- similar databases for selected countries; a critical review of existing instruments and analyses;
- analyses of agricultural trade, tariffs, quotas under preferential agreements;
- indicators of openness of the EU25 and other developed countries;
- a general equilibrium model to simulate the impact of trade preferential policy schemes and the effect of multilateral negotiations on trade flows and welfare;
- an original modelling tool to simulate the impact of trade agreements on the EU25 common market organizations;
- several sector/region focused partial equilibrium tools; an analysis of the effectiveness of EU25 trade agreements for developing countries, and
- a comparison with the preferential treatment granted by the US in the case of Africa; prospective analyses of possible future agreements with Mercosur, Russia and their effects on the agricultural sector the EU25;
- case studies like the impact of deepening the Euro Mediterranean and Balkans agreement on specific EU25 regions and sectors (e.g. fruits and vegetables); an analysis of the effects of future multilateral agreements on existing preferential trade schemes of the EU25. |
| Website |
http://www.tradeag.eu/ |
| Number of partners |
14 |
| Coordination |
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) |
| Country |
France |
| Coordinator name |
Jean-Christophe Bureau |
| Instrument |
STREP |
| Start date |
01/04/2005 |
| End date |
31/03/2008 |
| Project cost |
2.46 million euro |
| Project funding |
1.67 million euro |
WEMAC
| Acronym |
WEMAC |
| Title |
World Econometric Modelling of Arable Crops |
| Abstract |
The purpose of this project is to develop a partial equilibrium model to provide better simulations of the global effect of agriculture policy, trade reform and macroeconomic factors on arable crops and oilseeds markets. The proposal will develop medium term projections for the world cereals and oilseeds sector and measure the effects of alternative agricultural domestic and trade policies on arable crops and oilseeds markets. For each country modelled, the model will generate the main domestic market variables: supply, demand, domestic prices and trade estimates. Furthermore, as the impact of agricultural policies depends crucially on the level of world prices, the model will analyse the price formation mechanism in world cereals and oilseeds markets.The proposed model enhancement will allow a more comprehensive representation of policy and its effect on the sectors modelled. This proposal will contribute to a greater understanding of the way policy really operates by facilitating complementatry studies which will recognise that markets work imperfectly and which will account explicitly for the effect which farmers' risk attitudes can have on the impact of policy.The model will be used to simulate the effetcs of policy scenarios which will be designed by the project partnership in conjunction with the EU commission. These scenarios will include changes in agriculture and trade policies and external conditions such as exchange rates or macroeconomic shocks. Results will show the effects on countries which are important for the arable crops and oilseeds markets. Benefits will accrue to the EU commission, policy makers, farmers, agri-food businesses and the academic community through improvement in our understanding of the effect of policies and through greater availability of information for decision making in the face of increased policies reform pressures. Strong emphasis will be placed on the dissemination of results to interested parties. |
| Website |
http://w3.rennes.inra.fr/wemac/ |
| Number of partners |
4 |
| Coordination |
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) |
| Country |
France |
| Coordinator name |
Catherine Benjamin |
| Instrument |
STREP |
| Start date |
00/01/1900 |
| End date |
31/07/2008 |
| Project cost |
1.07 million euro |
| Project funding |
669 000 euro |
PICCMAT
| Acronym |
PICCMAT |
| Title |
Policy incentives for climate change mitigation techniques |
| Abstract |
In the Kyoto protocol context, PICCMAT aims at identifying and promoting changes in land managements practices to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. The Common Agricultural Policy includes different tools in its rural development policy to orientate farmer s' practices and environmental impact. These tools (mainly agri-environment measures and cross-compliance obligations) are expected to include climate change mitigation related measures. This project will provide objective information to develop guidelines for the design of climate change mitigation policy incentives. The project has three main objectives:
1) To provide scientific information for the development of policy related to agricultural practices and climate change mitigation. This will be realised through an extensive analysis of the potential mitigation options in land management practices. It will involve a close cooperation with past and on-going research projects, case studies in major European climatic regions, and a modelled quantification of the global impact of the introduction of selected practices.
2) To reinforce the links between policy makers and scientists in the field of climate change and agriculture. During its entire duration, PICCMAT will maintain close exchanges with EU policy makers and scientists through its Project advisory board and the organisation of workshops and seminars. EU-27 National authorities involved in the elaboration of the NRDP will be identified and directly involved in the project.
3) To raise European farmer awareness on the impact of agriculture on climate change. Through the organisation of an awareness campaign targeted at major agricultural organisations, PICCMAT will ensure a large dissemination of its results. The consortium built for the PICCMAT project includes 10 organisations and covers 10 countries in Europe, from the north to the south and the east, including NMS and ACC. |
| Website |
http://climatechangeintelligence.baastel.be/piccmat/ |
| Number of partners |
12 |
| Coordination |
Baastel |
| Country |
Belgium |
| Coordinator name |
Olivier Beucher |
| Instrument |
STREP |
| Start date |
01/01/2007 |
| End date |
31/12/2008 |
| Project cost |
480 165 euro |
| Project funding |
480 165 euro |
ADAGIO
| Acronym |
ADAGIO |
| Title |
Adaptation of agriculture in European regions at environmental risk under climate change |
| Abstract |
Compared to the manifold- potential impacts of climate change on agroecosystems, potential adaptation measures are even more complex because of the high number of options available through the human factor. New policies must therefore be adopted under climate change conditions considering all potential and realistic adaptation measures especially on the regional and farm level to secure sustainability of agricultural crop production. Despite of the recognised relevance of climate risk assessments for agroecosystems, they have been not noticeable applied for supporting adaptation within agricultural decision-making within Europe, neither worldwide, because of its uncertainty and lack of knowledge by decision-makers.
On the other hand, the European research funds concerning agricultural climate-change impact assessments have been addressed mainly to theoretical issues rather than to research-results applications. According to the above statement, a new SSA is proposed in order to analyse and evaluate potential and actual adaptation measures in agriculture for different climatic and agroecosystem regions under risk in Europe. The various questions as formulated under Task 18 of this SSP call will be investigated at the scientific level as well as at the farm level by the partners in selected vulnerable regions.
The SSA will consider not only future scenarios and results based on modelling tools, but also already visible (or known) ongoing changes and adaptation measures for a better and realistic assessment of potential future adaptation measures at the regional level. Furthermore, probably changes in the European policies, as the CAP or the WFD will be taken in account as well, since final decisions of farmers would be based on several issues additionally to climate risks. |
| Website |
http://www.adagio-eu.org/ |
| Number of partners |
10 |
| Coordination |
University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU) |
| Country |
Austria |
| Coordinator name |
Josef Eitzinger |
| Instrument |
SSA |
| Start date |
01/01/2007 |
| End date |
30/06/2009 |
| Project cost |
564 300 euro |
| Project funding |
526 300 euro |
FP7-KBBE-2007-1 (10 results)
AgriPolicy
| Acronym |
AgriPolicy |
| Title |
Enlargement Network for Agripolicy Analysis |
| Abstract |
AgriPolicy builds on the results of the previous FP6 project “CEEC AGRI POLICY†(which was awarded financial support by DG Research in 2004 following the call FP6-2003-SSP-3. The overall objective of the proposal is to support the formulation of Community agricultural policies. AgriPolicy has 4 specific objectives:
(1) Networking and information sharing: The objective is to stimulate networking and the sharing of information between organisations involved in agri-economic analysis. Networking will be stimulated through the organisation of 3 Symposia and 6 Workshops and the development of a dynamic website including up-dated directories of experts and organisations.
(2) Provide scientific input for policy making: the objective is to provide analyses on a number of specific topics ( two at 8-monthly intervals plus a “report on demandâ€).
(3) Prepare future analysis: the objective is to prepare for future policy and sectoral analyses and research by collecting quantitative and qualitative information. In the NMS, 3 monitoring reports of agricultural and rural will be prepared. In the WBC, a study of the existing availability of key agricultural and rural statistics will be prepared.
(4) Develop analytical capabilities: the objective is to strengthen the analytical capabilities of the research organisations involved in the project in the field of policy evaluation and foresight analysis. This will be achieved by implementing training sessions as well as conducting pilot studies.
AgriPolicy will be implemented by a team of experts from 24 organisations from 24 countries. The team is composed of the partners of the former project, augmented with new partners from the “old Member States » (IAMO in Germany and LEI in the Netherlands), and from Malta plus partners from Albania, FYROM, Kosovo and Montenegro. |
| Website |
www.agripolicy.net |
| Number of partners |
24 |
| Coordination |
Euroquality |
| Country |
France |
| Coordinator name |
Olivier Chartier |
| Instrument |
CSA |
| Start date |
juin-08 |
| End date |
mai-10 |
| Project cost |
998 219 euro |
| Project funding |
998 219 euro |
CERTCOST
| Acronym |
CERTCOST |
| Title |
Economic analysis of certification systems for organic food and farming |
| Abstract |
With the ongoing growth of the organic sector and the spread of organic production across the EU, the field of organic certification has become a maze of competing labels and logos, involving different private and public standards, in addition to European law. This diversity reflects the specific conditions for organic operators in countries or regions but can also lead to confusion for both producers and consumers and may create a variety of costs. Reg. (EC) 834/2007 intends a review of the revised regulation by the year 2011. It is imperative to conduct a comprehensive economic analysis of the variety of existing certification systems and their impact on the internal market for organic goods.
This project proposes to combine the experience and knowledge of both researchers and SMEs to fulfil the following objectives: analyse the implementation of organic certification systems and estimate all relevant expenditures or transaction costs for different certification systems along the organic food supply chain in various regions of the EU, including a candidate country and Switzerland. It will involve stakeholders. Access to the necessary data has already been agreed with the involved partners or appropriate agencies for all seven study countries. |
| Website |
http://www.certcost.org/ |
| Number of partners |
10 |
| Coordination |
Universitat Hohenheim |
| Country |
Germany |
| Coordinator name |
Hans-Peter Liebig |
| Instrument |
Small collaborative project |
| Start date |
01/09/2008 |
| End date |
31/08/2011 |
| Project cost |
3.48 million euro |
| Project funding |
2.73 million euro |
AgFoodTrade
| Acronym |
AgFoodTrade |
| Title |
NEW ISSUES IN AGRICULTURAL, FOOD, AND BIOENERGY TRADE. |
| Abstract |
International trade reflects complex dynamic processes driven by demographic, socio-economic, technological and political changes. Therefore, future evolution of world markets is highly uncertain.The project builds on past research but emphasizes issues usually overlooked by standard assessments of trade liberalization such as:
- the impact of demand from energy markets which could affect agriculture and reverse the decline of real farm product prices;
- the demographic changes, which in some developing and transition countries modify - the demand for food, especially that for industrial food processing;
- the concentration of firms in many global markets, which could modify the expected size and distribution of gains from trade liberalization among stakeholders;
- the impact of trade liberalization on price volatility, which is a key concern but remains to be thoroughly evaluated. |
| Website |
http://www.agfoodtrade.eu/ |
| Number of partners |
12 |
| Coordination |
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) |
| Country |
France |
| Coordinator name |
Sylvie La Mantia |
| Instrument |
Small collaborative project |
| Start date |
01/05/2008 |
| End date |
30/04/2011 |
| Project cost |
3.74 million euro |
| Project funding |
2.87 million euro |
TAPSIM
| Acronym |
TAPSIM |
| Title |
Trade, Agricultural Policies and Structural Changes in India's Agrifood System; Implication for National and Global Markets |
| Abstract |
The project offers a qualitative and quantitative analysis of future developments in Indian supply, demand and trade for the main agricultural commodities as well as developments in the food value chain. Working tools are improved and used to evaluate the impact of trade and agricultural policies, structural changes on the Indian agrifood system as well as on world markets.
More specifically, the project will include the following actions: Design of an analytical framework for the analysis of future trade and agricultural policy developments (including trade agreements) on supply, demand and trade for the main agricultural commodities in India. Initial suggestions for analysis are cereals, pulses, vegetable oils, cotton, sugar, dairy, meat and fish, fruits and vegetables. Identify the key processes of change in the Indian and global economy and their impacts on the agrifood sector of India. This serves as a basis for understanding future trends. Update, test and improve modelling tools and value chain analysis that will be used as building blocks in this project. Define indicators and develop databases for understanding and forecasting the impacts of policies on future developments of agriculture in India up to 2020. |
| Website |
http://www3.lei.wur.nl/tapsim/index.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1 |
| Number of partners |
6 |
| Coordination |
Landbouw-Economisch Instituut (LEI) B.V |
| Country |
Netherlands |
| Coordinator name |
Floor Brouwer |
| Instrument |
Small collaborative project |
| Start date |
01/09/2008 |
| End date |
31/08/2011 |
| Project cost |
1.73 million euro |
| Project funding |
1.35 million euro |
RuDI
| Acronym |
RuDI |
| Title |
Assessing the Impact of Rural Development Policies |
| Abstract |
The RuDI study will provide a thorough analysis of the design, delivery and impact of EU Rural Development Policy (incl. LEADER). The study combines quantitative and qualitative approaches starting with a critical review of the state-of-the-art in RD theory and the conceptual frameworks and approaches used in RD policy evaluation. In the study the Common Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (CMEF) and the underlying intervention and impact logics will be critically examined.
The positive and negative effects of rural development policies on institutional, social, economic and environmental level will be identified and described in a set of carefully selected and framed case studies. The impact assessment will also include those impacts that have not been anticipated. The case studies will be representative of the structural differences that can be found in the characteristics of rural areas across the EU. Focus will be on different types and characteristics of territory, interrelations with RD programme priorities and measures, and an assessment of their 'hard' and 'soft' impacts. |
| Website |
http://www.rudi-europe.net/ |
| Number of partners |
10 |
| Coordination |
Institute for Rural Development Research at J W Goethe University Frankfurt |
| Country |
Germany |
| Coordinator name |
Peter Franz |
| Instrument |
Small collaborative project |
| Start date |
01/02/2008 |
| End date |
31/07/2010 |
| Project cost |
3.26 million euro |
| Project funding |
2.52 million euro |
RuralJobs
| Acronym |
RuralJobs |
| Title |
New Sources of Employment to Promote the Wealth-Generating Capacity of Rural Communities |
| Abstract |
RuralJobs will quantify the employment needs and potentials in different typologies of pilot areas within contrasting reference areas in six EU countries, evaluating the effectiveness of past and current policies in addressing these needs and potentials, and by systematic analysis of the results, providing guidelines on the better targeting of future rural development measures. The main objective is to provide a clearer understanding of the factors influencing the employment potentials of different typologies of rural areas to support the future evolution of rural development policies. This will be backed up by the identification of good practice and a support network for implementation. The consortium consists of eight partners, one from each of Bulgaria, France, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Romania, Spain and UK. The seven work packages are:
WP1. Project management
WP2. Assessment of labour market policies and programmes
WP3. Assessment methodologies and indicators
WP4. Typology for regions
WP5. New strategies for employment in pilot areas
WP6. Synthesis of recommendations
WP7. Dissemination and technical assistance for mainstreaming. |
| Website |
http://www.ruraljobs.org/ |
| Number of partners |
8 |
| Coordination |
University of Debrecen |
| Country |
Hungary |
| Coordinator name |
Miklos Pakurar |
| Instrument |
Small collaborative project |
| Start date |
01/02/2008 |
| End date |
31/07/2010 |
| Project cost |
1.4 million euro |
| Project funding |
1.2 million euro |
FACEPA
| Acronym |
FACEPA |
| Title |
Farm Accountancy Cost Estimation and Policy Analysis of European Agriculture |
| Abstract |
The proposed project will provide EU policy makers with information, data, quantitative instruments (economic models) and empirical expertise on cost of production for various types of agricultural products using the FADN data. More specifically, the purpose is to offer first a general cost of production model that could be used to estimate cost of production for key agricultural commodities produced in the European Union. This model will be implemented and validated for a wide range of EU-member countries. Further, additional applications estimating costs of production in EU agriculture, using FADN data and based on different analytical tools, will be developed in this research project.
The expected outputs include:
- a review of experiences of estimating cost of production in the EU and other major agricultural producing countries;
- the development of a general cost of production model for EU agriculture,
- the application of the former model to several agricultural products (crop products, milk and pigs) and to several EU member countries using FADN data,
- an operational computer tool with user-friendly interface that can be used by relevant services of the EU Commission to estimate costs of production |
| Website |
http://www2.ekon.slu.se/facepa/index.html |
| Number of partners |
10 |
| Coordination |
Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet |
| Country |
Sweden |
| Coordinator name |
Ingrid Ragnarsdotter Jajke |
| Instrument |
Small collaborative project |
| Start date |
01/04/2008 |
| End date |
31/03/2011 |
| Project cost |
2.9 million euro |
| Project funding |
2.21 million euro |
ECONWELFARE
| Acronym |
ECONWELFARE |
| Title |
Good animal welfare in a socio-economic context: Project to promote insight on the impact for the animal, the production chain and society of upgrading animal welfare standards |
| Abstract |
The project proposal has been prepared in response to the call KBBE-2007-1-4-15. Assessing the socio-economic consequences and costs benefits of measures promoting good animal welfare. Central in this call is support to develop European policies implementing the Action Plan on Animal Welfare.
Overall objective of the project is related to the policy instruments needed to achieve the aims of the Action Plan on Animal Welfare. At the end of the project we want to say what policy instruments are effective in the route towards higher animal welfare representing the concerns of civil society and in which competitiveness of the livestock industry is guaranteed.
Basic questions in relation to objective
1. What are the current welfare initiatives and standards within the EU and its trade partners?
2. What are strength and weaknesses of these initiatives and standards to the animal, society and the production chain?
3. What policy instruments can be designed to promote high(er) animal welfare standards as aimed at in the Action Plan on Animal Welfare, and how can progress be monitored?
4. What are the benefits, costs and trade impacts of upgraded welfare standards?
Activities in relation to objective
- Communicate and debate to realize interaction across scientists, relevant stakeholders and citizens. |
| Website |
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| Number of partners |
8 |
| Coordination |
ASG Veehouderij BV |
| Country |
Netherlands |
| Coordinator name |
Anke De Lorm |
| Instrument |
CSA |
| Start date |
01/08/2008 |
| End date |
31/07/2011 |
| Project cost |
1.3 million euro |
| Project funding |
998 554 euro |
EAWP
| Acronym |
EAWP |
| Title |
European Animal Welfare Platform:adding welfare quality to food |
| Abstract |
Animal production has become increasingly industrialised over the last five decades. Recent crises such as BSE, swine fever, foot and mouth disease and avian influenza, and the activities of consumer and animal welfare organisations have raised public awareness that animal production is more than just an industry and that many other issues have to be considered.
In this project, we focus on the fact that farm animal welfare has become an issue of increasing public significance and concern. Recent surveys indicated that European citizens show a strong commitment to animal welfare and many consumers express a willingness to pay a premium price for a product emanating from a welfare-friendly production system (Eurobarometer, 2007). But their expressed willingness often fails to result in purchase. Consumers apparent reluctance to actually buy these products in the shop may at least partly reflect a lack of transparency in the market for animal products, (consumers are unable to recognize animal friendly products), as well as the limited assortment of such products. Clearly, it is extremely important for the industry, both from a corporate social responsibility and a market point of view, to re-build and maintain consumer trust related to how food-producing animals are housed and handled across Europe. This requirement demands the development of credible, reliable and transparent welfare assessment systems as well as product information and certification schemes to support communication to the consumer about the ways in which the animal food products are produced.
The present project addresses the above needs by developing a Stakeholder Platform (European Animal Welfare Platform; EAWP) that will facilitate the exchange of knowledge, experience and expertise in order to effectively support the implementation of scientifically based welfare assessment and information systems, improvement strategies, market initiatives, research and development and policy formulation. |
| Website |
http://www2.ekon.slu.se/facepa/index.html |
| Number of partners |
15 |
| Coordination |
Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet |
| Country |
Sweden |
| Coordinator name |
Harry Blokhuis |
| Instrument |
CSA |
| Start date |
01/05/2008 |
| End date |
30/04/2011 |
| Project cost |
1.16 million euro |
| Project funding |
992 105 euro |
TEAMPEST
| Acronym |
TEAMPEST |
| Title |
Theorical Developments and Empirical Measurement of the External Costs of Pesticides |
| Abstract |
Pesticides are defined as chemical substances protecting plants from pathogens, insects, nematodes and weeds. They are used to secure yields, improve quality of food and facilitate harvesting. However, their heavy use in agriculture resulted in pest resistance, ground, surface and water contamination as well as possible health problems on farmers/operators and consumers. Within this context, the objective of the proposed research stems from the need to provide a solid methodological framework and empirical evaluation which will assist policymakers in identifying the true impact of pesticides on agricultural production.
The obtained results may well serve as a benchmark for the foundation of future EU policy schemes aiming at achieving a sustainable use of pesticides in European agriculture. In this respect, the proposed project intends to provide an accurate assessment of the external costs of agricultural pesticide use and contribute to the relevant EU policies by developing tools for designing a socially optimal tax and levy scheme aimed at the reduction of pesticide use to its socially optimal level. Specific consideration will be given to the effects of the accrued scheme and alternative policy tools on the socially optimal pesticide use, as well as on economic sustainability and social welfare. |
| Website |
http://teampest.agro.auth.gr/default.htm |
| Number of partners |
10 |
| Coordination |
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki |
| Country |
Greece |
| Coordinator name |
Konstadinos Mattas |
| Instrument |
Small collaborative project |
| Start date |
01/05/2008 |
| End date |
30/04/2011 |
| Project cost |
2.96 million euro |
| Project funding |
2.27 million euro |
FP7-KBBE-2007-2B (4 results)
CAPRI-RD
| Acronym |
CAPRI-RD |
| Title |
Common Agricultural Policy Regionalised Impact - The Rural Development Dimension |
| Abstract |
The Common Agricultural Policy Regionalised Impact the Rural Development Dimension (CAPRI-RD) aims to develop and apply an operational, Pan-European tool including all Candidate and Potential Candidate countries to analyse the regional impacts of all policy measures under CAP Pillar I and II across a wide range of economic, social and environmental indicators, aligned with the CMEF. CAPRI-RD s core contains consistently linked economic models at the NUTS 2 level, the CAPRI model for agriculture, and a newly developed layer of regional CGEs.
Given the importance of the EU s agricultural trade, CAPRI includes a global agricultural market model. The project will improve price transmission modelling inside the EU market, review the implementation of de-coupled payments, and maintain the CAPRI farm type layer. Harmonised and regularly updated databases, including regional Social Accounting Matrices, act as the models sources. Quality management for data and results is ensured by clearly documented procedures that are partly based on statistical methods and sensitivity analysis. Spatial down-scaling algorithms will break down land use results to 1x1 km grid cells to facilitate the spatially explicit calculation of environmental impacts.
During the project s lifetime, CAPRI-RD will be improved and expanded stepwise. This will enable an annual policy impact assessment of scenarios defined by a user board comprising major stakeholders at the European level, and allow contributions to be made to the yearly DG-AGRI outlook work. Further, yearly training sessions will develop the necessary capacity in the European Research Area to successfully apply CAPRI-RD during and after the project. A Graphical User Interface (GUI) will allow the scenarios to be defined, the model to be steered, and the results to be explained through tables, graphs and maps. |
| Website |
http://www.ilr1.uni-bonn.de/Agpo/rsrch/capri-rd/caprird_e.htm |
| Number of partners |
9 |
| Coordination |
Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms Universitaet Bonn |
| Country |
Germany |
| Coordinator name |
Udo Bremer |
| Instrument |
Small collaborative project |
| Start date |
01/03/2009 |
| End date |
28/02/2013 |
| Project cost |
3.03 million euro |
| Project funding |
2.3 million euro |
NTB-IMPACT
| Acronym |
NTB-IMPACT |
| Title |
Assessment of the impacts of non-tariff barriers - NTB on the competitiveness of the EU and selected trade partners |
| Abstract |
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| Website |
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| Number of partners |
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| Coordination |
Centre de Cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Developpement (CIRAD) |
| Country |
France |
| Coordinator name |
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| Instrument |
Small collaborative project |
| Start date |
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| End date |
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| Project cost |
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| Project funding |
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PEGASUS
| Acronym |
PEGASUS |
| Title |
Public Perception of Genetically modified Animals - Science, Utility and Society |
| Abstract |
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| Website |
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| Number of partners |
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| Coordination |
Wageningen Universiteit |
| Country |
Netherlands |
| Coordinator name |
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| Instrument |
CSA |
| Start date |
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| End date |
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| Project cost |
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| Project funding |
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CROPS2INDUSTRY
| Acronym |
CROPS2INDUSTRY |
| Title |
Non-Food Crops-to-Industry schemes in EU27 |
| Abstract |
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| Website |
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| Number of partners |
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| Coordination |
Centre for Renewable Energy Sources |
| Country |
Greece |
| Coordinator name |
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| Instrument |
CSA |
| Start date |
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| End date |
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