Open AccessFLINT – Farm-level Indicators for New Topics in policy evaluation: an introduction
Author(s) -
K.J. Poppe,
Hans Vrolijk,
M.A. Dolman,
H.J. Silvis
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
studies in agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2063-0476
pISSN - 1418-2106
DOI - 10.7896/j.1627
Subject(s) - common agricultural policy , european union , agriculture , context (archaeology) , sustainability , agricultural policy , business , production (economics) , agricultural land , environmental resource management , welfare , diversity (politics) , environmental planning , environmental economics , agricultural economics , natural resource economics , economics , political science , geography , economic policy , archaeology , market economy , ecology , macroeconomics , biology , law
Societal expectations about agricultural production are changing. There are increased demands on issues such as food safety,\udanimal welfare and the impact of agriculture on the environment (land, water and air). These changes have been refl ected in\udthe European Union’s (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), but information on these issues is lacking and this complicates\udthe required evaluation of policies. The EU Framework 7 project FLINT tries to close this gap by analysing the feasibility of\udcollecting data on these new topics. FLINT has established a data infrastructure with up-to-date farm-level indicators for the\udmonitoring and evaluation of the CAP. The project created a pilot network of more than 1,000 farms to collect a set of sustainability\udindicators at farm level. The pilot represents farm diversity at EU level, including the different administrative environments\udin the Member States. This paper sets out the context and the main contributions of the project
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