Agricultural GHG emissions in the EU: an exploratory economic assessment of mitigation policy options

This report provides a quantitative assessment of possible implications of the implementation of specific policy options to mitigate agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the EU. The mitigation policy scenarios proposed and analysed within this report are all exploratory, i.e. it is intended to explore what could happen if policies would be implemented that explicitly force farmers in the EU to reach certain GHG emission reduction targets. It has to be stressed that all policy scenarios are rather theoretical and hypothetical and do not necessarily reflect mitigation policies that are already agreed on, or are under formal discussion

Assessment of most promising measures . Task 3 Service contract "Integrated measures in agriculture to reduce ammonia emissions"

This report describes the results of Task 3 Promising measures to decreasing N losses from EU agriculture. The aim of Task 3 was (i) to identify a list of most promising measures to decrease N emissions and to make an in-depth assessment of the costs of these measures, using the models CAPRI and MITERRA-EUROP

Impact of the " Everything but arms"initiative on the EU sugar sub-sector

This paper analyses the impact of "Everything but Arms" (EBA) initiative on the European Union (EU) sugar production, trade and agricultural income using the regionalised agricultural sector modelling system “CAPRI”. The CAPRI model distinguishes a supply and a spatial multi-commodity market module that interact iteratively. The supply module contains 200 non-linear regional programming models, each representing production patterns of 30 crop and 15 animal activities at NUTS II level. Trade flows in the market module between 13 world regions and the EU are endogenously determined. The impact analysis shows that the EU welfare and agricultural income is negatively but moderately affected by the EBA initiative due to the small relative importance of sugar beet in agriculture as a whole. EU sugar supply, trade and regional distribution of sugar production are significantly affected while EU sugar demand remains unchanged. As expected EU sugar imports increase from the LDCs while EU sugar exports decrease. The quota and duty free access for LDCs plays a major role for the captured products

Impact assessment of a possible modification of the IPPC Directive . Task 4 Service contract "Integrated measures in agriculture to reduce ammonia emissions"

This report gives description and analysis of the actual situation per member state, related to IPP