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Rural development programmes and related research within JRC
Pavel Milenov European Commission Joint Research Centre Directorate “Sustainable Resources“ Food Security Unit Macro-Regional Innovation Week Trieste, 30 September 2016
DG JRC Role: facts & figures
• 6 locations in 5 Member States
• 1 500 core research staff, out of around 3 000 total staff
• 83% of core research staff with PhDs
• Research fellows and visiting scientists
• 42 lаrge scale research facilities, more than 110 online databases
• More than 100 economic, bio-physical and nuclear models
Vision:
"To play a central role in creating, managing and making sense of the collective scientific knowledge for better EU policy."
Mission:
"As the science and knowledge service of the Commission our mission is to support EU policies with independent evidence throughout the whole policy cycle."
Vision and Mission Statements
DG JRC role in the policy cycle
Source: John Young, Overseas Development Institute
Monitoring and Evaluation
Agenda Setting
Decision Making
Policy Implementation
Policy Formulation
Civil Society
Commission
Private Sector
Council / Member States
European Parliament
Cabinet
Support to the Green Economy Living within the limits of the planet
Green Economy and Sustainable
Development
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Monitoring and Evaluation
Agenda Setting
Decision Making
Policy Implementation
Policy Formulation
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CAP Implementation
Training
“knowledge that ensures efficient and consistent implementation of the CAP”
KNOWLEDGE of agricultural land
Land parcels
LPIS
Land use survey
LUCAS
Farm controls
CwRS
Land Measurement
Areas of Natural
Constraints
Simplification at source
Technology developments giving policy
options
'hands-on' view of ideas later
Research developments, in
tandem with partners and
networks
Possible changes to satellite data
provision
• local sourcing
• use of 'open and free access' Copernicus data
Research and technical experience to facilitate policy design and implementation
“Research and innovation to facilitate CAP implementation and contribute to policy development”
CAP Implementation
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Data Capturing and Validation
3D concept for land cover definition
Farmer Geospatial Aid Application
Geotagged photos and precision farming data
Use of Sentinels from COPERNICUS
Appropriate procedures (OTSC)
Support to the delineation of Areas with Natural Constraints (ANC)
A common framework with 8 bio-physical criteria
Comparable application: definitions and thresholds are
identical for EU28
Buffer capacity of riparian vegetation — A pan-European case study on pesticides
Crop Yield forecasts - Europe
• Manage union agricultural markets in a global
context
• Contribute to the transparency of world markets
• Share access to such estimates in an
international context
“Independent and unbiased monthly forecasts of EU production for planning/management in a global economy"
Farm-Level administration and monitoring
Administration- sourcing
•Drones, Galileo positioning, Control report, IACS data
Farmer-sourcing
• Mobile phone pictures, field sensors, machinery sensors
Geospatial application
Certification systems Low carbon Organic Greening compliant
Farm performance payment system
Take into account different regional EU farm specificities ‘One CAP, many options’
Improved farm statistics Improved ‘regional’ statistics
Data aggregation
Equivalence
From compliance to farm performance
Tools measure performance, enabling to link payments to a specific level of results Budget Focus On Results
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Crops diversificaton
Fertilisers input
Energy input
Water input
Pesticide input
Gross marketable
production
Added value
Farmer work
profitability
Independence from
CAP subsidies
Farm activities
diversification
Natural value
Functional landscape
pattern
Tier 1 basic payment
Tier 2 intermediate payment
Tier 3 High Env payment
Farm performance
Measuring Performance at Farm Level
Monitoring and Evaluation
Agenda Setting
Decision Making
Policy Implementation
Policy Formulation
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Evaluation of 'greening‘
Greening impacts on production (running in
IPTS)
REFIT interservice group 2016
mid-term review (2017-2018)
Integration of models and tools
CAPRI – IFM/CAP - iMAP - BIoMA - INCA
Linkage to bio-physical / environmental domain
IACS consistency
(Core model)
Food-chain analysis of the agri-food sector
Sustainable diets (H2020 project) modelling
scenarios
Scenar 2030
A vision for the future of agriculture and rural
areas
Important for funding framework decisions
“JRC in-house models to understand rural land activities and dynamics”
CAP Assessment
Ecosystem services: • global climate regulation • pollination & seed
dispersal • pest control • flood protection • control of soil erosion • cultural values • ……………
Biodiversity: • amphibians • aquatic plants • birds • mammals • reptiles • …………… + Feature Diversity Index
Management: • labour • skills and knowledge • frequency of tasks • economic costs • temporal restrictions + land taken out of production
EFA
An indicator framework to calculate IMPACTS: criteria and rules derived from an extensive scientific literature review
Ecological Focus Areas: real sustainable farming?
Impact of Ecological Focus Areas on biodiversity and ecosystem services (ongoing studies in JRC)
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Feasibility Study on the Valuation of Public Goods and Externalities in EU-Agriculture Develop methodology for estimating the society’s value of PGaE
Analytical perspective: conduct cost-benefit analysis
Policy making perspective: decide the resources to allocate to PGaE
EU CAP and rural economy
PGaE PGaE indicators
Cultural landscape Recreation potential index
Cultural heritage
Farmland biodiversity HNVF
Water quality Total N input
Water availability Infiltration
Irrigated UAA
Soil quality Soil erosion
Air quality Total NH3 emissions
Climate stability Soil carbon content
Flooding resilience Flooding risk
Fire resilience Fire risk
improve understanding of the regional economy
impacts of CAP policy instruments
from an agriculture-centered focus, towards balanced
and sustainable development of EU rural areas
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RURAL-ECMOD (Ex-ante Spatial Policy Impact Analysis of the RDR in European Rural Areas)
CLAIM (FPVII project): Supporting the role of the Common agricultural policy in LAndscape valorization
Improving the knowledge base of the contribution
of landscape Management to the rural economy
EU CAP and rural economy (2)
To estimate the extent to which the RDP investment support has a complementary or a
substitutionary effect on farm investments.
To quantify the potential deadweight effect by estimating the extent to which the beneficiaries
would have undertaken comparable investments also without the investment support.
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Firm-Level Evidence of Deadweight Loss of Investment Support Policies A Case Study of Dairy Farms in Schleswig-Holstein
EU CAP and rural economy (3)
CAP evaluation toolbox Role of economic experiments to inform EU CAP
Assess the impact and to improve the design of agri-environmental schemes
- Choice experiments
- Lab and Field experiments
Choice experiments can suggest how
- Changes in contract details can increase the share of land allocated to the AES
- To ensure environmental objectives are met
- Adding a collective bonus, can enhance participation
Monitoring and Evaluation
Agenda Setting
Decision Making
Policy Implementation
Policy Formulation
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Water and nutrient cycles: hydrological modelling, water availability for
agriculture
Agro-economy: price of water, commodities, farm income
Crop growth simulations: impacts on yield, production, adaptation measures
Climate Forcing: IPCC scenarios, downscaling,
bias correction
Linking Climate Change – Water and nutrients – Crop Growth – Agricultural Production:
informing policy making.
Climate Change: consequences of Paris ambitions for agriculture and LULUCF
Re-use of IACS data for LULUCF reporting
Land Parcel Identification System
Re-use of IACS data for territorial development at macro-regional level
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Case Study within CBC project SPATIAL presented during the High-level event on the Scientific Support to the Danube Strategy in Vienna (June 2014) – DRDSI Nexus
Danube Reference Data and Service Infrastructure (DRDSI)
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Openness and transparency through data sharing
Common entry point for data, projects, applications, training materials and feedback for the whole Danube Marco-Region
http://drdsi.jrc.ec.europa.eu
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Data mining though European Media Monitor
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Monitoring and Evaluation
Agenda Setting
Decision Making
Policy Implementation
Policy Formulation
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Biodiversity, ecosystem services and public goods “Assessing and giving value to our agricultural areas"
Sustainability issues of
biodiversity, ecosystem services,
ecological networks
Scenarios, economic models
Food production, jobs, rural
economies
increasingly 'services' for city-living people, tourism
Visions for the future land use management in Europe – VOLANTE project
EU CAP and Smart Specialization
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• Focus RD measures in order to exploit optimally the local/regional
strengths and potential through
Advisory services to farmer to apply measures with higher impact at
the local context
Provision of sufficient flexibility with respect to the required compliance
Tailoring the EU support according to regional/local context to achieve
the required impact
Controlling the compliance at farm level, while monitoring the
performance at regional level
Adoption and dissemination of new technologies and innovations
• To achieve diversification of agriculture products, public goods and
ecosystem services that are closely related to existing regional
skills base.
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Projected impact of RD measures on
climate change
Intraregional differences in
the assessment
Intraregional differences in the assessment of the effectiveness of RD measures in EU CAP 2014-2020