Agricultural land abandonment in the EU within 2015-2030

Carolina Perpina Castillo (), Boyan Kavalov (), Vasco Diogo (), Chris Jacobs-Crisioni, Filipe Batista e Silva and Carlo Lavalle ()
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Carolina Perpina Castillo: European Commission – JRC, https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/index_en
Boyan Kavalov: European Commission – JRC, https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/index_en
Vasco Diogo: Wageningen Economic Research
Carlo Lavalle: European Commission – JRC, https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/index_en

No JRC113718, JRC Research Reports from Joint Research Centre

Abstract: In the period 2015-2030 about 11% (more than 20 million ha) of agricultural land in the EU are under high potential risk of abandonment due to factors, related to biophysical land suitability, farm structure and agricultural viability, population and regional specifics. The risk for around 800 thousand ha (0.4%), located in Southern and Eastern Romania, Southwestern France, Southern and central Spain, Portugal, Cyprus, Poland, Latvia and Estonia, is particularly severe. Economic factor and market instruments (including the EU Common Agricultural Policy) could largely mitigate those potential risks in a number, mostly Eastern countries and regions – Estonia, Latvia, Romania, Cyprus. The incremental abandonment within 2015-2030 is nevertheless projected to reach 4.2 million ha net (about 280 thousand ha per year on average) of agricultural land, bringing the total abandoned land to 5.6 million ha by 2030, the equivalent of 3% of total agricultural land.

Keywords: Agricultural land; LUISA territorial modelling platform; Knowledge Centre for Territorial Policies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 7 pages
Date: 2018-11
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