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This article provides a fact sheet of the European Union (EU) agri-environmental indicator risk of land abandonment. It consists of an overview of recent data, complemented by all information on definitions, measurement methods and context needed to interpret them correctly. The risk of land abandonment article is part of a set of similar fact sheets providing a complete picture of the state of the agri-environmental indicators in the EU.

Farmland abandonment is a cessation of management which leads to undesirable changes in biodiversity and ecosystem services.

Main indicator: 

  • The risk of farmland abandonment is estimated through statistical analysis of key drivers (see supporting indicators) combined into a composite index indicator. 

Supporting indicators:

  • Weak land market
  • Low farm income
  • Lack of investment in the farm
  • High share of farm holders over the age of 65 years
  • High share of farm holders with low qualification
  • Remoteness and low population density
  • Low farm size
  • Low share of farms committed to specific schemes linked to continue farming

Main statistical findings

Key messages

  • Farmland abandonment due to economic, structural, social or difficult regional factors is estimated to have a higher risk in southern Member States (Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Romania). In northern Europe, the risk is higher in the Baltic States, northern Finland and Sweden and in north-western Ireland.
  • NUTS2 regions with a higher risk of farmland abandonment also have a higher share (around 30%) of holdings with farm-type ‘grazing livestock’.
  • Difficulties in the indicator compilation arise from data availability and resolution. Farmland abandonment appraisal requires to access data at very fine scale in order to assess the distribution of situations within a NUTS2 region (avoiding regional averaging which masks specific situations). This was not possible with the Farm Structure Survey (FSS) dataset available to the European Commission Joint research Centre. Moreover, it was found that official European datasets (FSS, Farm Accountancy Data Network) do not hold the same level of geographic reporting amongst all Member States; thus creating time consuming processing and preventing building comparable outputs for all MS.





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