Resumen de Economic and environmental effects of the post-2020 cap reform proposal in spain: a farm level assessment
Athanasios Petsakos, Dimitrios Kremmydas, María Ángeles Espinosa Bayal, Ángel Perni Llorente, Pavel Ciaian
With the purpose of fostering better environmental performance of European farms, the CAP post-2020 reform will introduce new subsidy schemes to allocate direct payments that are conditional to environmental measures. In particular, the Commission's proposal for the CAP post-2020 introduces two layers of measures for achieving environmental objectives. First, “Enhanced conditionality” which will replace cross-compliance as the new, and more ambitious, minimum set of requirements for receiving Pillar I payments. Second, Member States are also asked to design a set of even more environmentally ambitious measures, referred to as “Eco-schemes”, which will be voluntary for farmers and will be funded through Pillar I. This study assesses economic and environmental effects of the CAP post-2020 reform at farm level in Spain. By using the Individual Farm Model for Common Agricultural Policy analysis (IFM-CAP), a set of scenarios of different levels of environmental ambition are simulated. The ...
