Who Benefits from CAP? The Way the Direct Payments System Impacts Socioeconomic Sustainability of Small Farms
| Autor: | Artiom Volkov, Dalia Streimikiene, Mangirdas Morkunas, Tomas Balezentis |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Direct Payments
Natural resource economics Geography Planning and Development 0211 other engineering and technologies Payment system TJ807-830 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law TD194-195 01 natural sciences Small farms Renewable energy sources small farms Lietuva (Lithuania) Small farm media_common.cataloged_instance GE1-350 European union socioeconomic sustainability TOPSIS Socioeconomic sustainability 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common Common Agricultural Ppolicy Food security Environmental effects of industries and plants Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry direct payments 021107 urban & regional planning Prekybos politika / Trade policy Environmental sciences Direct payments Agriculture Sustainability Business Common Agricultural Policy |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability, Vol 11, Iss 7, p 2112 (2019) Sustainability Volume 11 Issue 7 Sustainability (Basel) 2019, 11, 2112 |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| Popis: | The effects of globalization have often been adverse for the agricultural sector, especially its most vulnerable element&mdash the small farm. The importance of the agricultural sector as a whole and small farms in the sense of ensuring food security, employment and viability of rural areas, implies a necessity to support the sector and small farms in particular. For this purpose, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union (EU) seeks to boost the sustainability of agriculture in multiple dimensions. The 2013 reform of the CAP has provided a particularly strong impetus towards this direction. This paper establishes an indicator system to quantify the effects of the CAP direct payments on the socioeconomic sustainability of small farms. Expert survey and multi-criteria assessment are used to this end. The Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) method is applied for the multi-criteria analysis. Lithuania is taken as a case study. The results show that, in the case of Lithuania, the direct payment system did not contribute to the improvement in socioeconomic sustainability of small farms up until 2013 CAP reform when its impact became undeniable. |
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