Agricultural policy

This behavioural experiment with farmers assesses the effect of two features of the new push to adopt environmentally friendly practices within the EU common agricultural policy. Adoption of such practices can be made mandatory, or budgets can be shifted to encourage voluntary adoption. Results highlight trade-offs between mandatory and voluntary schemes to increase agriculture’s environmental and climate performance.

Financial instruments, available under the common agricultural policy (CAP), have a significant potential in contributing to the achievement of the Green Deal ambitions and more specifically of the Farm to fork and Biodiversity strategies.

Sustainable food systems, the situation in the European agricultural market as well as specific challenges related to COVID-19 and African swine fever were the main items discussed during the informal videoconference meeting of the agricultural and fisheries ministers. Ministers also touched upon the EU forest related policies and the EU forest strategy.

A recently published JRC report provides a quantitative assessment of policy options for the agricultural sector in the second phase of the Emerging Senegal Plan (ESP) and corresponding Priority Action Plan (PAP), which covers the period 2019-2023.