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The prospects of innovative agri-environmental contracts in the European policy context : Results from a Delphi study

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dc.contributor.authorKelemen, Eszter
dc.contributor.authorMegyesi, Boldizsár
dc.contributor.authorMatzdorf, Bettina
dc.contributor.authorAndersen, Erling
dc.contributor.authorvan Bussel, Lenny G.J.
dc.contributor.authorDumortier, Myriam
dc.contributor.authorDutilly, Céline
dc.contributor.authorGarcía-Llorente, Marina
dc.contributor.authorHamon, Christine
dc.contributor.authorLePage, Annabelle
dc.contributor.authorMoruzzo, Roberta
dc.contributor.authorPrager, Katrin
dc.contributor.authorRiccioli, Francesco
dc.contributor.authorYacamán-Ochoa, Carolina
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of Aberdeen.Geography & Environmenten
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-19T15:27:01Z
dc.date.available2023-06-19T15:27:01Z
dc.date.issued2023-08
dc.descriptionFunding Information: This research has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No 818190. Boldizsár Megyesi was supported by the Bolyai János Postdoctoral Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. We would like to thank all participating experts for their valuable contributions. We are grateful to György Pataki and Mikołaj Czajkowski for providing comments and suggestions to earlier drafts of this paper, and to Edward Ott for administrative and editing support. We thank Didier Buffière and Lisa Deijl for their help in reaching out to potential Delphi experts, and Balázs Sipos for his support with the graphic design. Finally, we express our gratitude to three anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments which helped us strengthen the paper. Funding Information: Non-state-initiated contracts, like different certification schemes and value chain approaches, are fairly widespread and also supported by the CAP. Respondents assume that certification systems have a favourable impact on farmers' position in the value chain and also on food provisioning. To reach these goals, this measure was considered the most powerful, but also its impacts on livelihood security and biodiversity were perceived positively. Despite this, value chain contracts were less favoured (compared to the other contract types) and often disputed by the experts. The disputes were condensed around two focal points. First, some experts doubted that value chain contracts could effectively target ecological objectives and mentioned the risk of greenwashing. Second, several experts argued that market-based solutions should not be part of the CAP to avoid spending public money on private benefits. This argument appeared occasionally, although the phenomenon is already present in the CAP, not only through the payments for organic farming, but also in the case of area-based payments (i.e., public money is paid to support the realisation of private benefits). One possible way of dealing with this perplexity around public and private funds and interests in agriculture could be enhancing the role of private initiatives. Value-chain or land tenure approaches could complement and strengthen the intentions of agri-environmental policy without necessarily allocating more public money to private actors, but by re-allocating private money across the actors of the whole value chain. This would require, however, that legislation increasingly focuses on the whole agri-food system and initiates steps to reduce the system-level distortions caused by CAP subsidies. Funding Information: This research has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No 818190 . Boldizsár Megyesi was supported by the Bolyai János Postdoctoral Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences . We would like to thank all participating experts for their valuable contributions. We are grateful to György Pataki and Mikołaj Czajkowski for providing comments and suggestions to earlier drafts of this paper, and to Edward Ott for administrative and editing support. We thank Didier Buffière and Lisa Deijl for their help in reaching out to potential Delphi experts, and Balázs Sipos for his support with the graphic design. Finally, we express our gratitude to three anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments which helped us strengthen the paper. Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Authorsen
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier256751425
dc.identifier97359819-5ed6-4376-966e-233c5ed6131c
dc.identifier85159114548
dc.identifier.citationKelemen, E, Megyesi, B, Matzdorf, B, Andersen, E, van Bussel, L G J, Dumortier, M, Dutilly, C, García-Llorente, M, Hamon, C, LePage, A, Moruzzo, R, Prager, K, Riccioli, F & Yacamán-Ochoa, C 2023, 'The prospects of innovative agri-environmental contracts in the European policy context : Results from a Delphi study', Land Use Policy, vol. 131, 106706. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106706en
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106706
dc.identifier.issn0264-8377
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2164/20920
dc.identifier.urlhttp://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85159114548&partnerID=8YFLogxKen
dc.identifier.vol131en
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofLand Use Policyen
dc.subjectAgri-environmental schemesen
dc.subjectCollective contractsen
dc.subjectContract designen
dc.subjectPolicy Delphien
dc.subjectResult-based paymentsen
dc.subjectValue chain contractsen
dc.subjectGE Environmental Sciencesen
dc.subjectG Geography (General)en
dc.subjectK Lawen
dc.subjectForestryen
dc.subjectGeography, Planning and Developmenten
dc.subjectNature and Landscape Conservationen
dc.subjectManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Lawen
dc.subject.lccGEen
dc.subject.lccG1en
dc.subject.lccKen
dc.titleThe prospects of innovative agri-environmental contracts in the European policy context : Results from a Delphi studyen
dc.typeJournal articleen

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