Rethinking Agricultural Support for the European Green Deal through the Functional Land Use Management

Project description

The European Union has launched a broad and ambitious initiative called the European Green Deal (EGD) to address numerous environmental, climate, and socioeconomic challenges, many of which are highly relevant to the agricultural sector. Relying solely on market forces will not be enough to achieve these ambitious objectives. Therefore, it is important to strengthen the link between the EGD and the support measures of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which receives more than 30% of the EU budget. This research aims to develop proposals for an EGD-oriented CAP 2028+ support system based on the Functional Land Management framework. It will explore how to link support payments directly to the extent of EGD-oriented land use at the parcel level. 

The project tasks include: (1) a review of the current support system's overall efficiency from the EGD perspective, (2) systematization of agricultural land use practices with a greater focus on the EGD targets, (3) preparation of the agricultural support approach proposals for the further CAP 2028+ political discussion.