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Competitive ProjectsThe Agri-Env team is at the moment involved in the following projects:
CAPRI-RD: The Common Agricultural Policy Regionalised Impact - the Rural Development Dimension
The Common Agricultural Policy Regionalised Impact - the Rural Development Dimension (CAPRI-RD) Framework Programme 7 project aims to develop and apply an operational, Pan-European tool including all Candidate and
Potential Candidate countries to analyse the regional impacts of all policy measures under CAP Pillar I and II across a wide range of economic, social
and environmental indicators, aligned with the Common Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (CMEF).
Objectives of CAPRI RD: Expansion of CAPRI to all Candidate and Potential Candidate Countries. Systematic data base on rural development policies of the
Common Agricultural Policy, linked to CAPRI and the regional CGEs, development and integration of indicators relating to rural development.
Expected Results of CAPRI RD. An improved operational up-to-date and validated CAPRI modeling system,for ex-ante analysis of both pillars of the CAP regarding the multi-functional role
of agriculture Regular support of DG-AGRI in policy impact analysis, focusing on Rural Development.
Geoland2 intends to constitute a major step forward in the implementation of the GMES (Global Monitoring of Environment and Security) Land Monitoring Core
Service (LMCS). The three components (Local, Continental and Global) of the LMCS are addressed.
The goal of geoland2 is (i) to prepare, validate and demonstrate pre-operational service chains and products that will underpin the LMCS, and (ii) to propose
and demonstrate a concrete functional organisation of the LMCS.
The architecture of geoland2 is made of two different layers, the Core Mapping Services (CMS) and the Core Information Services. More...
The SoCo project is being completed by JRC and other partners to study "sustainable agriculture
and soil conservation" to try to respond to the many challenges the European agriculture has to face,
such as environmentally sustainable production, food security and (rural) communities welfare.
SoCo was deployed in thee phases. Firstly, a literature review on agricultural practices - in particular
Conservation Agriculture - and on policy measures addressing soil erosion, loss of soil organic matter,
compaction, salinisation and landslides was completed, including an analysis of the environmental and economic
performance of such measures.
Secondly, ten case studies were carried out across Europe to ascertain the current setting of soil conservation
within the agricultural domain at local scale. Several workshops were also organized for a feedback from the community of stakeholders.
Finally, conclusions and recommendations were drawn for future dissemination among European farmers and policy makers.
The project aims at ex-ante policy assessment of the CAP by the maintenance and application of
the existing CAPRI modelling system and its improvement in several directions.
The project is devoted to six tasks: (1) regular yearly application of the CAPRI
system during the project's lifetime (database update, development of reference
run, scenario writing and CAP impact assessment), (2) improvement of CAPRI's economic
core model by development and validation of a recursive-dynamic version, (3) development
of an employment module for CAPRI, (4) development of an indicator for energy use in
agriculture, (5) development of a GIS link (soil, climatic and land use map), link and
development of a landscape assessment indicator and to a process based model for Green
House Gas emissions from agriculture and, last not least, (6) pilot study for East
expansion of CAPRI. The main objective of the proposal is to provide policy makers
and society with reliable ex-ante impact assessment of CAP measures on agricultural
income, production and land use, environmental indicators and employment at farm type,
regional, national and EU level by regular yearly baseline and scenario analysis.
The main instrument is the CAPRI modelling system which combines consistently (1)
aggregated programming models for farm types at NUTS II level with (2) a spatial
multi-commodity model for agricultural world markets, and (3) environmental pressure
indicators.
LUMOCAP aims at delivering an operational tool for assessing land use changes and
their impact on the rural landscape according to a CAP orientation. It focuses on
the relations between the CAP and landscape changes and emphasizes the spatio-temporal
dimension of the former. The core of the tool is a dynamic Cellular Automata based
land use model. It will be calibrated and its utility will be tested on historical data
characterizing changes in the period 1990-2000 (ex-post). Next it will be run to asses
policy development scenarios for 2000-2015 (ex-ante) by forecasting the future spatial
distribution of land-use/cover and related landscape indicators.
The end product is an open-ended, transparent, PC-based analytical system, operating
at different temporal and embedded spatial scales enabling to interactively enter
policy options under a specific set of natural and socio-economic conditions as external
driving forces, to formulate potential land use scenarios, and to assess the impact of
both on the quality of rural landscapes through the analysis of selected landscape
indicators. Similarly it enables identifying areas of adverse land use related
environmental change caused by non-sustainable agricultural systems.
The purpose of the Integrated Project SENSOR is to develop methods for identifying and addressing
sustainability issues in the context of case studies, and to build impact assessment
tools and decision support system methods that can be applied for regional policy
making at EU level. Different disciplinary viewpoints will be employed to produce
combined models and tools. The case studies will be selected to represent areas of
particular sensitivity, such as post-industrial zones, islands, coasts and mountainous
areas. However, the methodological approach developed will have general
application.
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