Project description
Enhancing analytical tools for post-2027 agri-food policies
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is a pivotal EU policy that upholds agriculture, ensures food security, and fosters rural development, playing a vital role in achieving the goals outlined in the European Green Deal. However, current quantitative tools need to broaden their thematic coverage to comprehensively address the components of the European Green Deal. The EU-funded ACT4CAP27 project aims to enhance the analytical capacity of crucial policy tools like CAPRI, GLOBIOM, MAGNET, and AGMEMOD. It contributes evidence-based knowledge to support the analysis and design of post-2027 agri-food policies. It develops an interdisciplinary framework to quantify various aspects of the EU agri-food system and related policies, encompassing economic, social, environmental, and climate sustainability impacts.
Objective
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 agri-food 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.
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinator
6708 PB Wageningen
Netherlands