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Improving the Resilience‐enabling Capacity of the Common Agricultural Policy: Policy Recommendations for More Resilient EU Farming Systems

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  • Yannick Buitenhuis
  • Jeroen Candel
  • Peter H. Feindt
  • Katrien Termeer
  • Erik Mathijs
  • Isabel Bardají
  • Jasmine Black
  • Anna Martikainen
  • Mertijn Moeyersons
  • Alessandro Sorrentino

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One of the aims of the post‐2020 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is to improve the resilience of Europe's farming systems. The CAP of the budget period 2014–2020, however, has insufficiently supported the resilience of farming systems. The ongoing CAP reform process offers an appropriate opportunity to integrate a broader perspective on resilience in the CAP. We therefore propose a set of policy recommendations on how to improve the capability of the CAP to support more fully the resilience (i.e. robustness, adaptability and transformability) of farming systems in the EU. The policy recommendations are based on a comparative analysis of six national co‐design workshops with stakeholders and a final EU‐level workshop with Brussels‐based experts. We concluded three key lessons about the CAP's influence on resilience: (1) resilience challenges, needs and policy effects are context‐specific; (2) resilience capacities are complementary, but trade‐offs between robustness, adaptability and transformability occur at the level of policies and due to budget competition; (3) there is a need for a coordinated long‐term vision for Europe's agriculture, which is difficult to achieve through the bargaining processes associated with a CAP reform. We propose specific policy recommendations that could contribute to a better balance between policies that support robustness, adaptability and transformability of Europe's farming systems. L'un des objectifs de la politique agricole commune (PAC) après 2020 est d'améliorer la résilience des systèmes agricoles européens. La PAC de la période budgétaire 2014–2020 n'a cependant pas suffisamment soutenu la résilience des systèmes agricoles. Le processus de réforme de la PAC en cours offre une opportunité bienvenue d'intégrer une perspective plus large sur la résilience dans la PAC. Nous proposons donc un ensemble de recommandations sur la manière d'améliorer la capacité de la PAC à soutenir plus pleinement la résilience (c'est‐à‐dire la robustesse, l'adaptabilité et la transformabilité) des systèmes agricoles dans l'Union européenne. Les recommandations s'appuient sur une analyse comparative de six ateliers nationaux de co‐conception avec les parties prenantes et d'un atelier final au niveau de l'Union avec des experts basés à Bruxelles. Nous avons conclu trois leçons clés concernant l'influence de la PAC sur la résilience: (1) les défis, les besoins et les effets de la politique en matière de résilience sont spécifiques au contexte; (2) les capacités de résilience sont complémentaires, mais des compromis entre robustesse, adaptabilité et transformabilité se produisent au niveau des politiques et en raison de la concurrence budgétaire; (3) une vision coordonnée à long terme de l'agriculture européenne est nécessaire, ce qui est difficile à réaliser dans le cadre des processus de négociation associés à une réforme de la PAC. Nous proposons des recommandations d'action publique spécifiques qui pourraient contribuer à un meilleur équilibre entre les politiques qui soutiennent la robustesse, l'adaptabilité et la transformabilité des systèmes agricoles européens. Eines der Ziele der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik (GAP) nach 2020 besteht in der Verbesserung der Resilienz der europäischen Landwirtschaftssysteme. Die GAP hat die Resilienz der Landwirtschaftssysteme in der Haushaltsperiode 2014–2020 jedoch nur unzureichend unterstützt. Der laufende GAP‐Reformprozess bietet eine gute Gelegenheit, die Resilienz in der GAP in einen breiteren Kontext zu stellen. Wir schlagen daher eine Reihe von Politikempfehlungen vor, um die Fähigkeit der GAP zu verbessern, die Resilienz (d.h. Stabilität, Anpassungsfähigkeit und Wandlungsfähigkeit) der Landwirtschaftssysteme in der EU umfassender zu unterstützen. Die Politikempfehlungen basieren auf einer vergleichenden Analyse von sechs nationalen Co‐Design‐Workshops mit Stakeholderinnen und Stakeholdern und einem abschließenden Workshop auf EU‐Ebene mit in Brüssel ansässigen Sachverständigen. Wir haben drei wichtige Lehren über den Einfluss der GAP auf die Resilienz gezogen: (1) die Herausforderungen, Bedürfnisse und politischen Auswirkungen der Resilienz sind kontextspezifisch; (2) die Resilienz‐Kapazitäten sind komplementär, es gibt allerdings Zielkonflikte zwischen Stabilität, Anpassungs‐ und Wandlungsfähigkeit auf der Politikebene und aufgrund von budgetären Konkurrenzsituationen; (3) es besteht die Notwendigkeit, eine koordinierte langfristige Vision für die europäische Landwirtschaft zu entwickeln, die durch die mit der GAP‐Reform verbundenen Verhandlungsprozesse nur schwer zu erreichen ist. Aus diesem Grund schlagen wir besondere Politikempfehlungen vor, die zu einem besseren Gleichgewicht zwischen jenen Maßnahmen beitragen könnten, die die Stabilität, die Anpassungs‐ und die Wandlungsfähigkeit der europäischen Landwirtschaftssysteme unterstützen.

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  • Yannick Buitenhuis & Jeroen Candel & Peter H. Feindt & Katrien Termeer & Erik Mathijs & Isabel Bardají & Jasmine Black & Anna Martikainen & Mertijn Moeyersons & Alessandro Sorrentino, 2020. "Improving the Resilience‐enabling Capacity of the Common Agricultural Policy: Policy Recommendations for More Resilient EU Farming Systems," EuroChoices, The Agricultural Economics Society, vol. 19(2), pages 63-71, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:eurcho:v:19:y:2020:i:2:p:63-71
    DOI: 10.1111/1746-692X.12286
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