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URL http://dx.doi.org/10.3220/WP1620647428000
Title (Primary) The Common Agricultural Policy post-2020: Views and recommendations from scientists to improve performance for biodiversity. Volume 2 – Annexes
Author Pe'er, G.; Birkenstock, M.; Lakner, S.; Röder, N.
Source Titel Thünen Working Paper
Year 2021
Department iDiv; ESS
Volume 175
Page To 264
Language englisch
Topic T5 Future Landscapes
Keywords CAP; Common Agricultural Policy; AECM; Eco-schemes; European Union; Biodiversity
Abstract Despite significant efforts, investments and some local successes, the EU’s Common Agricultural
Policy (CAP) has not succeeded in halting the loss of farmland biodiversity. To address this (and other)
weaknesses, the CAP post-2020 proposes a new “Green Architecture” comprising (inter alia)
compulsory elements (enhanced conditionality through Good Agricultural and Environmental
Conditions - GAEC), voluntary Agri-Environment-Climate Measures (AECMs), and a new instrument
called “Eco-schemes”. Will this new Green Architecture, combined with a result-based orientation of
the CAP, help address the biodiversity crisis?
To provide science-based feedback on this proposal, more than 300 scientists from 22 Member States
(MSs) have provided their expertise through 13 workshops that took place between October and
December 2020, and a follow up online survey. The results are published in Thünen Working Reports
with 3 volumes.1 The Thünen Working Paper 175 – Volume 1 contains all results of the workshops
with experts' assessment.2 The present Thünen Working Paper 175 – Volume 2 contains all reports
of the Member-State-Workshops as well as an overview of the experts' opinions on the Flagship-
Eco-schemes proposed by the EU Commission. In addition, a policy brief on the results was published
in Thünen Working Paper 175 – Volume 3.3
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Pe'er, G., Birkenstock, M., Lakner, S., Röder, N. (2021):
The Common Agricultural Policy post-2020: Views and recommendations from scientists to improve performance for biodiversity. Volume 2 – Annexes
Thünen Working Paper 175
Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut, Braunschweig, 264 pp.