CAP-IRE - Assessing the multiple impacts of the Common Agricultural Policies (CAP) on rural economies

Objective

European rural areas are undergoing major changes, including the impacts of migration, changes in settlement patterns, demographic ageing, changes in the nature of rural-urban interactions, a decreasing role of agriculture in terms of income and employment, and changes in governance systems. The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is the main expenditure chapter of the EU and is directly affecting the economy of rural areas. Assessing the impact of the CAP will help in re-addressing the CAP in the wider framework of EU policy objectives.

The objective of the project CAP-IRE is to develop concepts and tools to support future CAP design, based on an improved understanding of long term socio-economic mechanisms of change in rural areas. Concepts and tools will be developed, shaped by state of art literature and a wide empirical testing. Coverage includes case study regions in 9 countries of the EU. The focus will be farm households as the reference agents in the connection between policy and socio-economic change, as well as between agriculture and other sectors of the economy. Account of the wider non-EU and non-rural scenarios will be taken. The first step of the project will be to devise concepts and tools able to fill the gaps in present knowledge on development in rural areas.

Total cost: EUR 1 881 354
EU contribution: EUR 1 499 720
Coordinated in: Italy
Subprogramme: SSH-2007-2.2-02 - The impact of CAP reforms on Europe's rural economies
Call for proposal: FP7-SSH-2007-1
Funding scheme: CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research project

Coordinator: ALMA MATER STUDIORUM-UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA Italy

Participants

• JRC -JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE- EUROPEAN COMMISSION Belgium
• WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITEIT Netherlands
• LANDBOUW-ECONOMISCH INSTITUUT B.V. Netherlands
• ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS Greece
• SZKOLA GLOWNA GOSPODARSTWA WIEJSKIEGO Poland
• THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN United Kingdom
• UNIVERSIDAD DE CORDOBA Spain
• INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS Bulgaria
• INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE France
• LEIBNIZ-ZENTRUM FUER AGRARLANDSCHAFTSFORSCHUNG (ZALF) E.V. Germany