TY - JOUR
T1 - CAP payments and agricultural GHG emissions in Italy. A farm-level assessment
AU - Coderoni, Silvia
AU - Esposti, Roberto
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is an important external driver of European agricultural production. Nowadays
and in its envisioned future structure post-2020, the CAP has among its major objectives tackling climate
change, for what concerns both adaptation and mitigation strategies. However, little is known about the link between
past CAP reforms and agricultural greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions. This paper investigates the possible
role played by the Fischler Reform (FR) on the agricultural GHG emissions at the farm level. The FR represents a
major CAP reform for which data availability allows an ex-post analysis about its actual impacts. The empirical
analysis concerns a balanced panel of 6542 Italian Farm Accountancy Data Network observed over years the
2003–2007. Multinomial Logit models are estimated in sequence to express how the farm-level production
choices, and the respective emissions, vary over time also in response to CAP expenditure. Results suggest that
CAP expenditure had a role in the evolution of the farm-level emissions, though the direction of this effect may
differ across farms and deserves further investigation.
AB - The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is an important external driver of European agricultural production. Nowadays
and in its envisioned future structure post-2020, the CAP has among its major objectives tackling climate
change, for what concerns both adaptation and mitigation strategies. However, little is known about the link between
past CAP reforms and agricultural greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions. This paper investigates the possible
role played by the Fischler Reform (FR) on the agricultural GHG emissions at the farm level. The FR represents a
major CAP reform for which data availability allows an ex-post analysis about its actual impacts. The empirical
analysis concerns a balanced panel of 6542 Italian Farm Accountancy Data Network observed over years the
2003–2007. Multinomial Logit models are estimated in sequence to express how the farm-level production
choices, and the respective emissions, vary over time also in response to CAP expenditure. Results suggest that
CAP expenditure had a role in the evolution of the farm-level emissions, though the direction of this effect may
differ across farms and deserves further investigation.
KW - Agricultural greenhouse gases emissions
KW - Common agricultural policy
KW - Farm-level carbon footprint
KW - Multinomial choice models
KW - Agricultural greenhouse gases emissions
KW - Common agricultural policy
KW - Farm-level carbon footprint
KW - Multinomial choice models
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/153102
U2 - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.01.197
DO - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.01.197
M3 - Article
SN - 0048-9697
VL - 627
SP - 427
EP - 437
JO - Science of the Total Environment
JF - Science of the Total Environment
ER -