Livestock and Ecosystem Services: An Exploratory Approach to Assess Agri-Environment-Climate Payments of RDP in Trentino

Alessandra La Notte, Sonia Marongiu, Mauro Masiero, Pietro Molfetta, Riccardo Molignoni and Luca Cesaro
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Sonia Marongiu: CREA, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Via Nazionale, 82, 00184 Roma, Italy
Mauro Masiero: TeSAF Department, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università, 16, 35020 Legnaro (PD), Italy
Pietro Molfetta: Servizio Politiche Sviluppo Rurale—Provincia Autonoma di Trento, Via Trener, 3, 38121 Trento, Italy
Riccardo Molignoni: Agenzia Per i Pagamenti in Agricoltura—Provincia Autonoma di Trento, Via Trener, 3, 38121 Trento, Italy
Luca Cesaro: CREA, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Via Nazionale, 82, 00184 Roma, Italy

Land, 2015, vol. 4, issue 3, 1-23

Abstract: The identification of an appropriate justification for Agri-Environment-Climate (AEC) payments is a crucial issue in the new Rural Development Programme (RDP). Given the environmental importance of grasslands in Trentino (Italy), the Management Authority in charge of the RDP decided to integrate an approach based on Ecosystem Services (ES) into the calculation of AEC payments. The paper presents the methodology used for this approach as well as the preliminary results. The first step entails building a probabilistic model for the ES, named Sustainable Fodder Production. Model outputs are then integrated with the accounting results based on the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) database (2009–2012) with the aim of calculating the additional costs and income waived due to the environmental commitments deriving from the sustainable management of permanent grassland in livestock farming. Sustainability measures imply more extensive management practices that maintain meadows in a healthy state.

Keywords: livestock farming; agri-environmental payments; ecosystem services; rural policies; farm subsidies; environmental modeling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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