Advancing Capacity and analytical Tools for supporting Common Agricultural Policies post 2027

Project Information

ACT4CAP27

Grant agreement ID: 101134874

DOI

10.3030/101134874

EC signature date 17 November 2023

Start date 1 March 2024

End date 28 February 2029

Funded under

• Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment

Total cost

€ 5 434 000,00

EU contribution

€ 5 434 000,00

Coordinated by

STICHTING WAGENINGEN RESEARCH
Netherlands

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - ACT4CAP27 (Advancing Capacity and analytical Tools for supporting Common Agricultural Policies post 2027)

Reporting period: 2024-03-01 to 2025-08-31

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is the European Union's flagship policy for supporting the agricultural sector, ensuring food security, and safeguarding rural development. The CAP is also a key tool for reaching EU’s sustainability objectives, as set out in the European Green Deal and associated policies, and in DG AGRI’s Vision for Agriculture and Food, in which Commissioner Hansen indicates how the agricultural sector can be made future-proof (i.e. attractive, competitive, resilient and sustainable). 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.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

The work carried out in the first 18 months focused on developing an analytical framework to assess the impact of policy on the sustainability of the EU food system. In addition, the databases used for the project's models were expanded. Additional data and socio-economic and environmental indicators will provide better insight into the consequences of (future) agricultural and agriculture-related policies for the agrifood sector. Modifications to model structures have begun to simulate, among other things, the impact of changes in input use, consumer preferences, and conditionality for direct income payments. An infrastructure has been built to enable the exchange of data and results between models (ACT4CAP27 Portal). Uptake and capacity building are key components of the project. Various training sessions for modelers have been held, and exchanges of young researchers have begun. Interaction with stakeholders (including the EC) is a fundamental prerequisite for a project to be policy-relevant. Two major stakeholder meetings were held in RP1, and the ACT4CAP27 project was discussed on numerous occasions in meetings with the EC and in national meetings organized or attended by project partners.

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

Not applicable yet. Results in terms of model innovations and policy evaluation (scenario simulations) will be delivered in RP2 and subsequent periods.