BESTMAP: behavioural, Ecological and Socio-economic Tools for Modelling Agricultural Policy

Half of the European Union (EU) land and the livelihood of 10 million farmers is threatened by unsustainable land-use intensification, land abandonment and climate change. Policy instruments, including the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) have so far failed to stop this environmental degradation....

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Published inResearch Ideas and Outcomes Vol. 6; pp. 179 - 48
Main Authors Ziv, Guy, Beckmann, Michael, Bullock, James, Cord, Anna, Delzeit, Ruth, Domingo, Cristina, Dreßler, Gunnar, Hagemann, Nina, Masó, Joan, Müller, Birgit, Neteler, Markus, Sapundzhieva, Anna, Stoev, Pavel, Stenning, Jon, Trajković, Milica, Václavík, Tomáš
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Sofia Pensoft Publishers 01.03.2020
Subjects
agri
Agricultural economics
Agricultural production
Agriculture
Behavioral change theory
Biodiversity
Case studies
Climate change
Common Agricultural Policy
Decision making
Economic models
ecosystem services
Employment
Environmental degradation
Environmental economics
Environmental research
Farmers
Farms
Land use
Mathematical models
Remote sensing
Renewable resources
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Summary:Half of the European Union (EU) land and the livelihood of 10 million farmers is threatened by unsustainable land-use intensification, land abandonment and climate change. Policy instruments, including the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) have so far failed to stop this environmental degradation. BESTMAP will: 1) Develop a behavioural theoretical modelling framework to take into account complexity of farmers’ decision-making; 2) Develop, adapt and customize a suite of opensource, flexible, interoperable and customisable computer models linked to existing data e.g. LPIS/IACS and remote sensing e.g. Sentinel-2; 3) Link economic, individual-farm agent-based, biophysical ecosystem services and biodiversity and geostatistical socio-economic models; 4) Produce a simple-to-use dashboard to compare scenarios of Agri-Environmental Schemes adoption; 5) Improve the effectiveness of future EU rural policies’ design, monitoring and implementation.
ISSN:2367-7163
2367-7163
DOI:10.3897/rio.6.e52052