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The Agri-Environment-Climate Measure as an Element of the Bioeconomy in Poland—A Spatial Study

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  • Aleksandra Jezierska-Thöle

    (Institute of Geography, Kazimierz Wielki University, Plac Kościeleckich 8, 85-033 Bydgoszcz, Poland
    Department of Anthropogeography, Freie University Berlin, Malteserstr. 74-100, 12 249 Berlin, Germany)

  • Roman Rudnicki

    (Department of Spatial Planning and Tourism, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Lwowska 1, 87-100 Toruń, Poland)

  • Łukasz Wiśniewski

    (Department of Spatial Planning and Tourism, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Lwowska 1, 87-100 Toruń, Poland)

  • Marta Gwiaździńska-Goraj

    (Department of Socio-Economic Geography, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Prawochenskiego 15, 10-720 Olsztyn, Poland)

  • Mirosław Biczkowski

    (Department of Spatial Planning and Tourism, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Lwowska 1, 87-100 Toruń, Poland)

Abstract

The Polish agricultural economy has a chance to dynamically develop and influence the innovation policy in the EU model of bioeconomy. The research aims to assess the spatial diversification of the level and structure of spending funds for two Rural Development Program (RDP) measures: agri-environment-climate measures (AECM) and organic farming scheme (OFS) aimed at supporting proenvironmental forms of agricultural management in the context of bioeconomy development. The EU financial perspective determined the time range for 2014–2020. The study was conducted on the example of Poland in two spatial scales: regional (province) and local (community). The analysis was based on partial indicators, which were then subjected to the standardisation procedure and included in the total as a synthetic indicator of the utilisation of RDP 2014–2020 funds aimed at supporting proenvironmental forms of farming. The following information was included in the evaluation: the number of farms, the size of utilised agricultural area (UAA) covered by support and the amounts of payments made under the two analysed RDP measures. In the research, the size and distribution of farms benefiting from AECM and OFS were determined. Besides, the relationship between funds absorption and socioeconomic development, as well as natural and non-natural conditions, were identified. The synthetic indicator of AECM/OFS usage showed a strong spatial differentiation, determined by the impact of several conditions: the level of socioeconomic development, the level of agriculture development, natural conditions of agriculture, land with significant natural and ecological values, and proenvironmental forms of land use on farms. Spatial diversification is more often the result of the impact of proenvironmental or natural-ecological factors than of socioeconomic conditions, or the level of agricultural development.

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  • Aleksandra Jezierska-Thöle & Roman Rudnicki & Łukasz Wiśniewski & Marta Gwiaździńska-Goraj & Mirosław Biczkowski, 2021. "The Agri-Environment-Climate Measure as an Element of the Bioeconomy in Poland—A Spatial Study," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 11(2), pages 1-19, February.
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