The effect of mandatory agro-environmental policy on farm environmental performance

Jūratė Jaraite-Kažukauskė and Andrius Kazukauskas

No 2011:13, CERE Working Papers from CERE - the Center for Environmental and Resource Economics

Abstract: The EU farmers are subject to mandatory cross compliance measures requiring them to meet environmental conditions to be eligible for public support. These obligations reinforce incentives for the farmers to change their behaviour towards the environment. We apply quasi-experimental methods to measure the causal relationship between cross-compliance and farm environmental performance. We find that cross compliance reduced farm fertiliser and pesticide expenditure. This result also holds for farmers who participated in other voluntary agro-environmental schemes. However, the results do not support our expectations that farmers who relied on larger shares of public payments had a stronger motivation to improve their environmental performance.

Keywords: agriculture; Common Agriculture Policy; cross-compliance; environment; EU; farm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2011-09-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-env and nep-eur
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