MEA-SCOPE: Micro-economic instruments for impact assessment of multifunctional agriculture to implement the model of European agriculture

• Forschungsstelle: EU FRP
• Projektnummer: 04.0018
• Projekttitel Englisch: MEA-SCOPE: Micro-economic instruments for impact assessment of multifunctional agriculture to implement the model of European agriculture

Schlüsselwörter (Englisch)

Multifunctionality; agricultural policy

Alternative Projektnummern (Englisch)

EU project number: 501516

Forschungsprogramme (Englisch)

EU-programme: 6. Frame Research Programme - 1.8.1 Policy-orientated research

Kurzbeschreibung (Englisch)

See abstract

Weitere Hinweise und Angaben (Englisch)

Full name of research-institution/enterprise:
Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau FiBL

Abstract (Englisch)

Common Agricultural Policy reform aims at higher international trade compatibility and better targeting of social, environmental and consumer concerns, while seeking to ensure the sustainable development of EU agriculture. To optimise the effectiveness .and efficiency of CAP reform options towards multi functionality implementations, tools are required to assess the impacts of agricultural production on the multiple functions of European landscapes.
The EU Model of European Agriculture (MEA) has a multifunctional perspective but policy makers lack multi functionality impact assessment tools. MEA-Scope will develop such a tool and thus will close the existing gap between pure ecological or social process models and sectoral macro-econometric or equilibrium models. To ensure compatibility with the MEA, a specific interpretation of multi functionality will be devised and used in the design of MEA-Scope. MEA-Scope will be spatially explicit and will perform impact assessments of agricultural land use modifications at farm and landscape level. This will be achieved by linking three existing micro-economic models that simulate different aspects of farm structure. economics, production and environmental impact. 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 multi functionality 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 seven European landscapes including both, agriculturally benign and marginal land. Beef production is chosen because it is among the most adaptable systems with respect to natural conditions and societal demands on land use. This will provide rigorous proof of MEA-Scope's capacity to assess joint production of commodities and non-commodities in different regions.

Datenbankreferenzen (Englisch)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
State Secretariat for Education and Research
Hallwylstrasse 4
CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
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Swiss Project-Number: 04.0018