Implications for food production, land use and rural development of the European Union’s Single Farm Payment: Indications from a survey of farmers’ intentions in Germany, Portugal and the UK |
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| Authors: | RB Tranter A Swinbank MJ Wooldridge L Costa T Knapp GPJ Little ML Sottomayor |
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| Institution: | 1. Centre for Agricultural Strategy, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, The University of Reading, P.O. Box 237, Reading, RG6 6AR, UK;2. Faculty of Economics and Management, The Portuguese Catholic University, Centre Regional do Porto, Rua Diogo Botelho 1327, 4169-005 Porto, Portugal;3. Institut für Agrarökonomie, Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5, 37073 Göttingen, Germany;4. Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, House of Commons, 7 Millbank, London SW1P 3JA, UK;1. INRA SAD UPR 055 ASTER, 662 Avenue Louis Buffet, Mirecourt 88500, France;2. Université de Lorraine, LORIA, UMR 7503, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy 54506, France;1. State Key Laboratory of Cryosphere Sciences, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China;2. MOE Key Laboratory of Western China''s Environmental System, Research School of Arid Environment and Climate Change, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China;3. Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale, Universita'' di Perugia, Via G. Duranti 93, 06125 Perugia, Italy;4. College of Environment and Safety Engineering, Qingdao University of Science & Technology, Qingdao 266042, China;5. College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China;1. Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics Group, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 94240, Amsterdam 1090 GE, The Netherlands;2. Soil and Water Conservation Department, CEBAS-CSIC (Spanish Research Council), Campus Universitario de Espinardo, PO Box 164, Murcia 30100, Spain |
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| Abstract: | The 2003 reform of the European Union’s (EU) Common Agricultural Policy introduced a decoupled income support for farmers called the Single Farm Payment (SFP). Concerns were raised about possible future land use and production changes and their impact on rural communities. Here, such concerns are considered against the workings of the SFP in three EU Member States. Various quantitative studies that have determined the likely impact of the SFP within the EU and the study countries are reviewed. We present the results of a farm survey conducted in the study countries in which farmers’ responses to a decoupling scenario similar to the SFP were sought. We found that little short-term change was proposed in the three, rather different, study countries with only 30% of the farmers stating that they would alter their mix of farm activities. Furthermore, less than 30% of all respondents in each country would idle any land under decoupling. Of those who would adopt a new activity, the most popular choices were forestry, woodland and non-food crops. |
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| Keywords: | CAP reform Food production Land use and rural development Farmers’ intentions Germany Portugal and the UK |
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