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Johan F M Swinnen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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institutional factors affecting Agricultural land markets
2012Co-Authors: Pavel Ciaian, Johan F M Swinnen, Kristine Van Herck, Dartis Kancs, Liesbet VrankenAbstract:This paper analyses the main institutional factors affecting the rental and sales markets for Agricultural land. Particular attention is paid to the effects of the common Agricultural policy on land markets, and more specifically the underlying mechanism through which Agricultural subsidies are capitalised into land values and farmland rents. This paper also provides a broad overview of the empirical studies that estimate the impact of Agricultural Support policies on land rents and land prices. Various other fundamental factors that affect Agricultural land markets are discussed, such as land market institutions and regulations, transaction costs, credit market constraints and levels of profitability, the legal means of contract enforcement and land use alternatives.
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eu land markets and the common Agricultural policy
2010Co-Authors: Pavel Ciaian, Dartis Kancs, Johan F M SwinnenAbstract:Economic theory, as well as empirical findings, suggest that the way in which Agricultural Support is provided has an influence on land markets, because payments capitalise to some degree into land values, affecting both the sale and rental price of land. The present paper analyses how the income distributional effects and farm restructuring are impacted by the SPS by accounting for entitlement tradability, cross-compliance requirements, different SPS implementation models, and the entitlement stock. Our results suggest that the SPS implication details are highly important: farmers’ benefits can range from 100% of the SPS value to a negative policy incidence, and farm structural change may be hindered by the SPS.
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eu land markets and the common Agricultural policy
2010Co-Authors: Johan F M SwinnenAbstract:Since 2005, the European Union has provided farmers with subsidies that are not linked directly to production of specific crops, through the single payment scheme (SPS), as part of reforms to its common Agricultural policy. This book investigates to what extent the SPS has led to the capitalization of Support into land values in the EU. Economic theory and empirical findings suggest that the way in which Agricultural Support is provided to farmers has an influence on land markets. Subsidies tend to become capitalized into land values to some degree, affecting both the sales and rental prices of land. These effects in turn have a bearing on the transfer efficiency of the Support and structural change in agriculture. Drawing from a combination of data sources, 11 country and 18 regional studies, this extensive empirical analysis offers preliminary findings of the reaction of EU land markets and asset values to the changes in EU policy.
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eu land markets and the common Agricultural policy
2010Co-Authors: Pavel Ciaian, Dartis Kancs, Johan F M SwinnenAbstract:Economic theory and empirical findings suggest that the way in which Agricultural Support is provided has an influence on land markets. Support payments tend to become capitalised into land values to some degree, affecting both the sales and rental prices of land. These effects in turn have a bearing on the transfer efficiency of the Support and structural change in agriculture. Since 2005, the EU has provided decoupled Support to farmers through the single payment scheme (SPS), as part of the reform of its common Agricultural policy. This book investigates whether the SPS has led to the capitalisation of Support into land values in the EU, and if so, to what extent. Drawing from a combination of data sources – including Eurostat, the Farm Accountancy Data Network, 11 country and 18 regional studies – this extensive empirical analysis offers preliminary evidence of the reaction of EU land markets and asset values to the changes in policy.
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eu land markets and the common Agricultural policy ceps paperbacks february 2010
2010Co-Authors: Pavel Ciaian, Dartis Kancs, Johan F M SwinnenAbstract:Economic theory and empirical findings suggest that the way in which Agricultural Support is provided has an influence on land markets. Support payments tend to become capitalised into land values to some degree, affecting both the sales and rental prices of land. These effects in turn have a bearing on the transfer efficiency of the Support and structural change in agriculture. Since 2005, the EU has provided decoupled Support to farmers through the single payment scheme (SPS), as part of the reform of its common Agricultural policy. This book investigates whether the SPS has led to the capitalisation of Support into land values in the EU, and if so, to what extent. Drawing from a combination of data sources – including Eurostat, the Farm Accountancy Data Network, 11 country and 18 regional studies – this extensive empirical analysis offers preliminary evidence of the reaction of EU land markets and asset values to the changes in policy.
Ziwen Zhang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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spatial shifts in grain production increases in china and implications for food security
Land Use Policy, 2018Co-Authors: Jieyong Wang, Ziwen ZhangAbstract:Abstract China’s food security remains a worldwide concern due to its huge population and rapid urbanization. As demonstrated by statistics, China’s total grain output has been continuously increasing since 2003. Meanwhile, the grain production growth has shown various spatial disparities across the country. This paper explores the spatial shifts in grain production increase and their potential impacts at county-level in China. The results show that the barycenter of grain production has moved northward obviously and crossed the Yellow River, which served as the main irrigation water source for agriculture in North China. Both absolute grain output growth and relative growth patterns demonstrate that North China, especially the region of north bank of the Yellow River, has been the significant area contributing to grain production. China has shifted grain production to the marginal regions with lower land productivity and higher natural risk. Although China’s grain output has increased continuously, the grain output system is now more vulnerable and unstable than before. In the final part, the paper discusses the three main factors influencing the spatial shifts in grain output, which are farmland protection system, farmer-protecting grain subsidy policies and the dramatic improvement in Agricultural infrastructure, and gives some suggestions on the improvement of farmland protection system and Agricultural Support policy.
Tomas De Figueiredo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the future of olive groves on sloping land and ex ante assessment of cross compliance for erosion control
Land Use Policy, 2010Co-Authors: Jan De Graaff, Filomena Duarte, Luuk Fleskens, Tomas De FigueiredoAbstract:Abstract Under the past Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) olive oil subsidy regime, farmers were eligible for subsidies on the basis of the amount of olive oil they produced. This led to an intensification of production, particularly on flat land, and had in most cases negative environmental effects, such as more soil erosion on sloping land and more pollution. With the decoupling of Agricultural Support under the newly established rules of the CAP, formalised in 2005, cross compliance measures have become obligatory. In this paper an ex-ante assessment is made of the application of cross compliance for soil erosion control (natural cover crops and terrace maintenance) in hilly and mountainous olive groves in Tras-os-Montes in Portugal. A linear programming model was developed to assess the various socio-economic and environmental effects of four different development scenarios for olive groves. The scenarios were developed on the basis of changing market prices, wage rates and subsidies; their effects included shifts towards intensification, abandonment and organic farming. Simulations considering a minimum return to labour constraint showed very high levels of abandonment, particularly in combination with cross compliance obligations. However, even without this minimum return to labour constraint, abandonment would reach more than 20% in three out of the four scenarios. The model showed that cross compliance obligations could be quite effective in reducing erosion, but that they would depress income in all scenarios as a result of higher abandonment and lower percentage shifts towards intensive systems.
George Philippidis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the eu budget battle assessing the trade and welfare impacts of cap budgetary reform
Food Policy, 2015Co-Authors: Pierre Boulanger, George PhilippidisAbstract:There is a paucity of quantitative impact assessments of the sectorial and macroeconomic impacts of CAP budget reform for EU member states. To fill this gap, the current study employs a sophisticated Agricultural variant of the GTAP model to evaluate the recently agreed CAP spending limits for the financial period 2014–2020 as well as a more radical 50% cut to the CAP budget proposed by the UK government. The study incorporates methodological innovation in terms of the modelling of CAP budgetary mechanisms. Furthermore, official EU auditing statistics are employed to (i) greatly improve the existing representation of Agricultural Support payments in the GTAP benchmark data and (ii) implement a detailed contemporary CAP baseline for member states to capture both the decoupled/coupled split of Support payments and the distribution of Support across both ‘pillars’.
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the eu budget battle assessing the trade and welfare impacts of cap budgetary reform
Food Policy, 2015Co-Authors: Pierre Boulanger, George PhilippidisAbstract:Abstract There is a paucity of quantitative impact assessments of the sectorial and macroeconomic impacts of CAP budget reform for EU member states. To fill this gap, the current study employs a sophisticated Agricultural variant of the GTAP model to evaluate the recently agreed CAP spending limits for the financial period 2014–2020 as well as a more radical 50% cut to the CAP budget proposed by the UK government. The study incorporates methodological innovation in terms of the modelling of CAP budgetary mechanisms. Furthermore, official EU auditing statistics are employed to (i) greatly improve the existing representation of Agricultural Support payments in the GTAP benchmark data and (ii) implement a detailed contemporary CAP baseline for member states to capture both the decoupled/coupled split of Support payments and the distribution of Support across both ‘pillars’. In general, CAP expenditure cuts have muted impacts on EU and world Agricultural markets; whereas changes in net transfer payments have implications for real income and macro trade balances in EU member states. This observation is particularly pertinent when assessing conciliatory reductions in the UK rebate in exchange for deeper CAP budget cuts.
Pavel Ciaian - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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institutional factors affecting Agricultural land markets
2012Co-Authors: Pavel Ciaian, Johan F M Swinnen, Kristine Van Herck, Dartis Kancs, Liesbet VrankenAbstract:This paper analyses the main institutional factors affecting the rental and sales markets for Agricultural land. Particular attention is paid to the effects of the common Agricultural policy on land markets, and more specifically the underlying mechanism through which Agricultural subsidies are capitalised into land values and farmland rents. This paper also provides a broad overview of the empirical studies that estimate the impact of Agricultural Support policies on land rents and land prices. Various other fundamental factors that affect Agricultural land markets are discussed, such as land market institutions and regulations, transaction costs, credit market constraints and levels of profitability, the legal means of contract enforcement and land use alternatives.
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eu land markets and the common Agricultural policy
2010Co-Authors: Pavel Ciaian, Dartis Kancs, Johan F M SwinnenAbstract:Economic theory, as well as empirical findings, suggest that the way in which Agricultural Support is provided has an influence on land markets, because payments capitalise to some degree into land values, affecting both the sale and rental price of land. The present paper analyses how the income distributional effects and farm restructuring are impacted by the SPS by accounting for entitlement tradability, cross-compliance requirements, different SPS implementation models, and the entitlement stock. Our results suggest that the SPS implication details are highly important: farmers’ benefits can range from 100% of the SPS value to a negative policy incidence, and farm structural change may be hindered by the SPS.
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eu land markets and the common Agricultural policy
2010Co-Authors: Pavel Ciaian, Dartis Kancs, Johan F M SwinnenAbstract:Economic theory and empirical findings suggest that the way in which Agricultural Support is provided has an influence on land markets. Support payments tend to become capitalised into land values to some degree, affecting both the sales and rental prices of land. These effects in turn have a bearing on the transfer efficiency of the Support and structural change in agriculture. Since 2005, the EU has provided decoupled Support to farmers through the single payment scheme (SPS), as part of the reform of its common Agricultural policy. This book investigates whether the SPS has led to the capitalisation of Support into land values in the EU, and if so, to what extent. Drawing from a combination of data sources – including Eurostat, the Farm Accountancy Data Network, 11 country and 18 regional studies – this extensive empirical analysis offers preliminary evidence of the reaction of EU land markets and asset values to the changes in policy.
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eu land markets and the common Agricultural policy ceps paperbacks february 2010
2010Co-Authors: Pavel Ciaian, Dartis Kancs, Johan F M SwinnenAbstract:Economic theory and empirical findings suggest that the way in which Agricultural Support is provided has an influence on land markets. Support payments tend to become capitalised into land values to some degree, affecting both the sales and rental prices of land. These effects in turn have a bearing on the transfer efficiency of the Support and structural change in agriculture. Since 2005, the EU has provided decoupled Support to farmers through the single payment scheme (SPS), as part of the reform of its common Agricultural policy. This book investigates whether the SPS has led to the capitalisation of Support into land values in the EU, and if so, to what extent. Drawing from a combination of data sources – including Eurostat, the Farm Accountancy Data Network, 11 country and 18 regional studies – this extensive empirical analysis offers preliminary evidence of the reaction of EU land markets and asset values to the changes in policy.
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study on the functioning of land markets in the eu member states under the influence of measures applied under the common Agricultural policy
EERI Research Paper Series, 2008Co-Authors: Johan F M Swinnen, Pavel Ciaian, Dartis KancsAbstract:Economic theory, as well as empirical findings, suggest that the way in which Agricultural Support is provided has an influence on land markets, because payments capitalise to some degree into land values, affecting both the sale and rental price of land. The present paper analyses how the income distributional effects and farm restructuring are impacted by the SPS by accounting for entitlement tradability, cross-compliance requirements, different SPS implementation models, and the entitlement stock. Our results suggest that the SPS implication details are highly important: farmers’ benefits can range from 100% of the SPS value to a negative policy incidence, and farm structural change may be hindered by the SPS.