Questions about land use change induced by policies impacting the agricultural sector such as bio-fuel mandates have clearly raised the interest of understanding to which extent changes in agricultural productions stem from the extensive margins – expansion of agricultural land cover – or...

In 2003, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has been reformed and decoupling direct payments from farm output is one of its core elements. We estimate the likely responses in organic product supply due to the reform at regional and sectoral levels. In addition, we analyse how the new programme...

The methodological challenge addressed here is modelling multi-regional development of agricultural production and structural change, including land competition, in a dynamic partial equilibrium setting. The model applied in this study is a dynamic recursive model simulating the development of...

We analyse whether the 2003 CAP reform and the anticipated new program of rural development will lead to an expansion or a reduction of organic farming. An extended version of the Positive Mathematical Programming (PMP) method is developed in order to differentiate organic farming from...

Studies on liberalisation normally do not take into account the external benefits and costs of agriculture. Empirical studies on the valuation of externalities should be integrated into quantitative modelling. MULTSIM is a national supply model of agriculture. Besides commodity output the model...

This paper presents a quantitative analysis of the impacts of the „Luxembourg Compromise†as compared to a continuation of Agenda 2000 to the year 2010. The employed new version of the CAPRI model allows us to represent the different member states’ implementations of the CAP...

The objective of this paper is to analyse farm strategies and investment behaviour in a sample ofselected Italian farm-households facing different scenarios, with a particular focus on the effects ofthe 2003 CAP reform. Models were built for individual households using multi-criteria...

Based on the comprehensive Impact assessment of potential changes to the CAP thataccompanied the HC legal proposals tabled by the Commission on 20th May 2008, this paperfocuses on the impact analysis of options for adjustment of the Single Payment Scheme. It isput in evidence the distributional...

Since 2000, the two important reforms of The EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)took place. The Agenda 2000 Berlin Agreement of March 1999 aimed to increase EUagriculture market orientation and focuses on the grain, oilseed, dairy and the beef sectors. Itreduced intervention prices in these...

The CAP reform process has been a central issue for agricultural economics research in recentyears, and is gaining further attention in view of the post-2013 perspectives.The objective of this paper is to assess ex-ante the effect of different post-2013 CAP and marketscenarios on the demand of...