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Umverteilung von Direktzahlungen zugunsten von Dauergrünlandbetrieben: Beabsichtigte und unbeabsichtigte Auswirkungen
Author(s) -
Hecht Judith,
Moakes Simon,
Offermann Frank
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
eurochoices
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.487
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1746-692X
pISSN - 1478-0917
DOI - 10.1111/1746-692x.12099
Subject(s) - grassland , attractiveness , unintended consequences , arable land , direct payments , payment , business , natural resource economics , common agricultural policy , transfer payment , abandonment (legal) , agriculture , geography , agroforestry , economics , environmental science , ecology , finance , market economy , psychology , archaeology , political science , psychoanalysis , welfare , law , biology
Summary Grasslands are an important landscape element in Europe. However, the grassland area has been reduced in the last 50 years. This article assesses potential impacts of a scenario that redistributes CAP direct payments to maintain or increase permanent grassland areas using a farm‐level modelling approach in Germany, Wales and Switzerland. Our results indicate that a reallocation of support payments can help to prevent abandonment or conversion of permanent grassland to more intensive land use. This may be more difficult to achieve when there is a limited arable area to transfer budget from, as demonstrated by results in Wales. Policy effects at the level of farm type can often vary due to the heterogeneities and complexities of permanent grassland farming systems. Our results also show that unintended ‘slippage’ effects such as increased temporary grassland area may occur, though this could also be seen as a form of sustainable intensification. Other difficulties include: a) potential for negative effects on specific farm types despite a positive overall effect, and b) distortions within land markets due to the attractiveness of support payments within sectors of low profitability.