Advancing Capacity and analytical Tools for supporting Common Agricultural Policies post 2027 (Act4CAP27)
Funding
European Comission
Duration
3/2024 – 02/2029
Coordinator:
Stichting Wageningen Research
Participants:
- Stichting Wageningen Research (WR)
- Thünen Institute (TI)
- EuroCare Bonn GmbH
- Internationales Institut für angewandte Systemanalyse (IIASA)
- Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet (SLU)
- Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM)
- Wageningen University (WU)
- Polissia National University (PNU)
- Universita Degli Studi Roma Tre (UniRoma3)
- Ecorys Brussels NV (Ecorys)
- Posessio KFT (POS)
- University College London (UCL)
- Join Research Centre, European Comission (JRC)
Overview
The Common Agricultural Policy is the European Union's flagship policy for supporting the agricultural sector, ensuring food security, and safeguarding rural development while it is also a key tool for reaching the objectives of the European Green Deal, including the Farm to Fork and the Biodiversity Strategy. With these policy strategies, the EU aims for more sustainable food systems. Effectively supporting the policy impact assessment in this new context is a great challenge for the existing quantitative modelling tools as it requires them to substantially enhance the thematic coverage to comprehensively address all the components of the European Green Deal and ensure consistency with the monitoring systems in place. ACT4CAP27 responses to this challenge by enhancing the analytical capacity of the key policy tools (CAPRI, GLOBIOM, MAGNET,AGMEMOD) used by the European Commission to assess short-term and long-term policy impacts on EU’s agri-food systems and providing evidence-based knowledge supporting analysis for the design of agrifood policies post 2027. ACT4CAP27 develops a consistent, interdisciplinary methodological framework to operationalise and quantify relevant aspects of the EU agri-food system and related policies post 2027 and their economic, social (including health), environmental and climate sustainability impacts. Act4CAP27 addresses the main shortcomings of current modelling tools with its Act4CAP27 Modular Toolbox for EU Food System Modelling which provides a basis for innovation by creating a collaborative space and a modular model infrastructure for the whole EU agri-food research community and beyond. The Act4CAP27 Dissemination and Stakeholder Platform establishes an appropriate and inclusive engagement with stakeholders to co-create, communicate, and disseminate Act4CAP27 research results. ACT4CAP27 launches an Interactive Roadmap for guiding EU, national and regional policy makers weigh up policy objectives towards more sustainable outcomes.
Contributions of EuroCARE
WP3 plans to enhance the capacity of models to address critical urgent societal problems (CUSP). In this work package (WP), EuroCare will contribute to a harmonized global input-use model (covering fertilizers, pesticides, and antibiotics) in Task 3.1 and will work on further extending CAPRI in the context of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and Green Deal (GD) policies.
On more technical aspects, EuroCare will assess and provide feedback on the scenario explorer developed by IIASA (Task 4.3).
Additionally, EuroCare will contribute to further modular implementations and model linkages between the market and supply model (Task 5.2). EuroCare leads Task 5.3, which focuses on documenting analytical approaches and tools, and will initiate a peer-review session with other models (e.g., MAGNET, GLOBIOM).
Within the scenario work in WP6, EuroCare will contribute to the baseline, short-term scenarios (covering fertilizers, pesticides, organic targets, and the Ukraine war), as well as long-term scenarios focusing on the Green Deal, climate, biodiversity, and emissions/removals in LULUCF.
