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Development of models and tools for assessing the environmental impact of agricultural policies (2001-2003)

Project for DG-Environment

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Partner

• LEI, The Hague, Netherlands (co-orindating team)
• IAM, Institut Agronomique Mediterranéen, Montpellier, France
• IAP, Bonn, Germany: Wolfgang Britz and Ignacio Perez

Objectives

• To develop a system of computer-based models for assessing the environmental impact of agricultural policies, both at farm, regional (NUTS II) and EU wide level, which are consistently linked. A key asset is the existing CAPRI modelling system, which covers the whole EU at NUTS II. It will be systematically broken down to a series of farm models, reflecting Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) farming type models. The farm models will provide insights into farm income, environmental indicators per farm type and the variability of these indicators between farm types.
• To develop databases required for using the modelling system. Again, the databases will be not built from scratch, but use existing frameworks.
• Using the system of models, to assess ex-ante and ex-post the impact of selected changes in agricultural policies on the environment

Methodology

• Link between Farm Accounting Data Network (FADN) Data base and the CAPRI regionalised data base
• Development of farm type models for the CAPRI modelling system
• Improved (nitrate balance, Ammonia emission) and new environmental indicators (water balances) for CAPRI
• Application of the CAPRI modelling system including farm type models for the analyse of the Mid-Term Review proposal

Publications/Material:

• BRITZ W. :
  Power point presentation on the CAPRI farm type sub-module
• HELMING J., BRITZ W., PEREZ I. and FLICHMAN G.:
  Development of models and tools for assessing the environmental impact of agricultural policies
  Final Report, 2003

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Last updated: Wednesday, October 20, 2010

News

• Special issue of the journal World Economy on Non-Tariff-Measures with contributions of researchers in the institute Beghin, J. and Orden, D. (Guest Eds.)(2012):
  "NTMs, Agricultural and Food Trade, and Competitiveness", Special Issue of The World Economy (forthcoming)
• Individual grant by DFG (German Science Foundation) "Analysis of dairy production systems differentiated by location; bewilligt Principal investigators Christine Wieck and Thomas Heckelei, Doctoral student Yyonne Zavelberg, 3/2012-3/2015
• Individual grant by DFG (German Science Foundation) "The relation between indicators for the crediting of emission rights and abatement costs -a systematic modelling approach for dairy farms" Principal investigators Karin Holm-Müller and Wolfgang Britz, Doctoral student Bernd Lengers, 11/2011-11/2014

Recent publications

• Policy reform and agricultural land abandonment in the EU Renwick, A., Jansson, T., Verburg, P. H., Revoredo-Giha, C., Britz, W., Gocht, A. and McCracken, D., (2012):
  "Policy reform and agricultural land abandonment in the EU", Land Use Policy, 30 (2013) 446 - 457, doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2012.04.005
• EU-Wide (Regional and Farm Level) Effects of Premium Decoupling and Harmonisation Following the Health Check Reform Britz, W., Gocht, A., Pèrez Dominguez, I., Jansson, T., Grosche, S. und Zhao, N.(2012):
  "EU-Wide (Regional and Farm Level) Effects of Premium Decoupling and Harmonisation Following the Health Check Reform", German Journal of Agricultural Economics61, p. 44-56
• TRQ-complications: who gets the benefits when the EU liberalizes Mercosur's access to the beef markets? F. Junker and T. Heckelei(2012):
  "TRQ-complications: who gets the benefits when the EU liberalizes Mercosur's access to the beef markets?", Agricultural Economics 43(2), p. 215-231
• Modelling Regional Input Markets With Numerous Processing Plants: The Case Of Green Maize For Biogas Production In Germany R. Delzeit, W. Britz and H. Holm-Müller(2011):
  "Modelling Regional Input Markets With Numerous Processing Plants: The Case Of Green Maize For Biogas Production In Germany", Environmental Modelling & Software 32, p. 74-84
• Estimating irrigation water demand in the Moroccan Drâa Valley using contingent valuation Storm, H., T. Heckelei and C. Heidecke (2011):
  "Estimating irrigation water demand in the Moroccan Drâa Valley using contingent valuation", Journal of Environmental Management 92(10), p. 2803-2809
• Scale changes and model linking methods for integrated assessment of agri-environmental systems Ewert, F., M. Van Ittersum, T. Heckelei, O. Therond, I. Bezlepkina and E. Andersen (2011):
  "Scale changes and model linking methods for integrated assessment of agri-environmental systems", Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 142(1-2), p. 6-17
• Farm, land, and soil nitrogen budgets for agriculture in Europe calculated with CAPRI Leip, A., W. Britz, F. Weiss and W. de Vries (2011):
  "Farm, land, and soil nitrogen budgets for agriculture in Europe calculated with CAPRI", Environmental Pollution 159(11), p. 3243-3253
• Foreign Direct Investment and the Performance of European Agribusiness Firms L. Adenäuer and T. Heckelei (2011):
  "Foreign Direct Investment and the Performance of European Agribusiness Firms", Journal of Agricultural Economics 62(3), p. 639-654