Institute for European Environmental Policy


  • Towards sustainability: Future policies for European livestock

    The CAP is failing to reward adequately those livestock farmers who produce public goods. Brexit and CAP reform are opportunities to do better.

    agri-environment
    agriculture
    biodiversity
    CAP
    climate change
    cross-compliance
    food
    grassland
    greenhouse gases
    high nature value
    land use
    livestock
    policy instruments
    trade 
    01 Mar 2017
  • New PEGASUS website

    Project website for EU research project PEGASUS goes live!

    agri-environment
    agriculture
    biodiversity
    CAP
    ecosystem services
    forestry
    land use
    livestock
    public goods 
    11 Aug 2015
  • Sustainable intensification of European agriculture

    The concept of sustainable intensification has come into prominence in the context of global food security. This report defines what we mean by sustainable intensification, explains its global logic, discusses what it means for EU agriculture and exemplifies this in three case studies for soil performance, nutrient recycling and biodiversity.

    agri-environment
    agriculture
    biodiversity
    CAP
    climate change
    ecosystem services
    Environmental Policy Integration
    food
    high nature value
    land use
    Less Favoured Areas
    livestock
    natural resources
    organic farming
    policy instruments
    public goods
    resource use
    sustainability criteria
    sustainable consumption and production 
    25 Jul 2014
  • High Nature Value farming throughout EU-27 and its financial support under the CAP

    This study reviews Member States’ estimates of the extent of HNV farmland and use of RDP measures and the CMEF indicators, then identifies future priorities for CAP support for HNV farming and discusses the support opportunities under the reformed CAP. It offers detailed new evidence about the combined effect of Pillar 1 and Pillar 2 CAP payments on the economic and environmental viability of a typical HNV farming system in three Member States.

    agriculture
    biodiversity
    Biodiversity Action Plan
    Birds Directive
    CAP
    climate change
    cross-compliance
    ecosystems
    Environmental Policy Integration
    EU funding
    financial instruments
    grassland
    Habitats Directive
    high nature value
    indicators
    land use
    livestock
    Natura 2000
    natural resources
    nature conservation
    organic farming
    payment for ecosystem services
    public goods
    soil
    subsidiarity 
    16 May 2014
  • New report: High Nature Value Farming in the EU

    Member States need to make the most of the opportunities under the new Common Agricultural Policy if the declines in HNV farming, critical for meeting our 2020 biodiversity targets, are to be halted.

    agri-environment
    agriculture
    biodiversity
    Birds Directive
    CAP
    climate change
    cross-compliance
    ecosystems
    EU funding
    grassland
    Habitats Directive
    high nature value
    land use
    livestock
    Natura 2000
    organic farming
    payment for ecosystem services
    soil 
    16 May 2014
  • Options for sustainable food and agriculture in the EU

    How should Europe respond to the increased demands on our food and agriculture systems arising from global population growth, changing diets, and competing demands on agricultural land? This report offers a view on how the EU could play a role in meeting these challenges in the coming decades and sets out some of the options which merit particular attention.

    agriculture
    biodiversity
    bioenergy
    biofuels
    climate change
    eco-innovation
    food
    genetically modified organism
    land use
    livestock
    natural resources
    recycling
    soil
    sustainable consumption and production
    sustainable development
    waste 
    17 Dec 2013
  • Europe’s role in feeding the world in 2050

    IEEP presents views on how Europe should respond to the increased demands on our food and agriculture systems arising from global population growth, changing diets, and competing demands on agricultural land.

    agriculture
    biodiversity
    bioenergy
    biofuels
    climate change
    eco-innovation
    food
    genetically modified organism
    land use
    livestock
    natural resources
    recycling
    resource use
    soil
    sustainable consumption and production
    sustainable development
    waste 
    17 Dec 2013
  • Interactions between climate change and agriculture; and between biodiversity and agriculture in Europe

    What should be Europe’s role in feeding the world in 2050? This IEEP report for the European Parliament describes options for increasing the productivity of European agriculture whilst adapting to climate change, reducing emissions, and providing biodiversity and ecosystem service benefits from agriculture.

    adaptation
    agri-environment
    agriculture
    biodiversity
    bioenergy
    biofuels
    birds
    climate change
    eco-innovation
    food
    genetically modified organism
    high nature value
    land use
    livestock
    mitigation
    natural resources
    organic farming
    recycling
    resource use
    soil
    sustainable consumption and production
    sustainable development
    waste 
    29 Oct 2013
  • Delivering environmental benefits through entry-level agri-environment schemes in the EU

    A new study of the 2007-13 agri-environment schemes across the whole of EU-27 provides the first typology of ‘entry-level’ agri-environment management and environmental objectives, plus a detailed insight into the design of entry-level agri-environment schemes and calculation of payment rates in seven Member States.

    agri-environment
    agriculture
    Biodiversity Action Plan
    CAP
    climate change
    cross-compliance
    Environmental Policy Integration
    EU funding
    financial instruments
    grassland
    high nature value
    land use
    livestock
    payment for ecosystem services
    public goods
    soil
    subsidiarity 
    21 Mar 2012

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