Soil Data Cube and Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Generating National-Scale Topsoil Thematic Maps: A Case Study in Lithuanian Croplands by Nikiforos Samarinas, Nikolaos L. Tsakiridis, Stylianos Kokkas, Eleni Kalopesa, George C. Zalidis

“…However, the existing ready-to-use maps are characterized mainly by a coarse spatial resolution (>200 m) and information that is not up to date, making their use insufficient for the EU’s policy requirements, such as the common agricultural policy. This work, by utilizing the Soil Data Cube, which is a self-hosted custom tool, provides yearly estimations of soil thematic maps (e.g., exposed soil, soil organic carbon, clay content) covering all the agricultural area in Lithuania. …”
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Use of Winery and Animal Waste as Fertilizers to Achieve Climate Neutrality in Non-Irrigated Viticulture by Vassilis Litskas, Alicia Ledo, Patrick Lawrence, Antonios Chrysargyris, George Giannopoulos, Richard Heathcote, Astley Hastings, Nikolaos Tzortzakis, Menelaos Stavrinides

“…This approach could be used for the design of eco-schemes related to C farming under the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).…”
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Soil Loss Estimation by Water Erosion in Agricultural Areas Introducing Artificial Intelligence Geospatial Layers into the RUSLE Model by Nikiforos Samarinas, Nikolaos L. Tsakiridis, Eleni Kalopesa, George C. Zalidis

“…The overall methodology could strongly support regional decision making and planning and environmental policies such as the European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).…”
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Archetypes of agri-environmental potential: a multi-scale typology for spatial stratification and upscaling in Europe by Michael Beckmann, Gregor Didenko, James M Bullock, Anna F Cord, Anne Paulus, Guy Ziv, Tomáš Václavík

“…The resulting archetypes can be used to support spatial stratification, upscaling and designation of more spatially-targeted agricultural policies, such as those in the context of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy post-2020.…”
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Sustainability and competitiveness in farms: An evidence of Lazio region agriculture through FADN data analysis by Claudio Liberati, Concetta Cardillo, Antonella Di Fonzo

“…The new legislative proposals related to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform 2021-2027 aim to promote a sustainable and competitive agricultural sector. …”
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LASAM Model: An Important Tool in the Decision Support System for Policymakers and Farmers by Irina Pilvere, Aleksejs Nipers, Agnese Krievina, Ilze Upite, Daniels Kotovs

“…Various agricultural sector models see particularly extensive use in the European Union (EU), determining the impact of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and helping to create future development scenarios. …”
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Do farmers care about pollinators? A cross-site comparison of farmers’ perceptions, knowledge, and management practices for pollinator-dependent crops by Violeta Hevia, Marina García-Llorente, Rodrigo Martínez-Sastre, Sara Palomo, Daniel García, Marcos Miñarro, María Pérez-Marcos, Juan Antonio Sanchez, José A. González

“…Implications of our results for the ongoing reform of the Common Agricultural Policy are discussed, highlighting the need to increase engagement and trust of farmers through communication and technical assistance.…”
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Field margin botanical diversity, composition and quality on intensively managed farming systems by J. Larkin, D. Ó hUallacháin, J.A. Finn, H. Sheridan

“…Retaining areas of high-quality farmland habitat and enhancing those areas that have become ecologically degraded will be key to achieving the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) objective of protecting landscapes and biodiversity. …”
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Mapping Ecological Focus Areas within the EU CAP Controls Framework by Copernicus Sentinel-2 Data by Filippo Sarvia, Samuele De Petris, Enrico Borgogno-Mondino

“…Greening is a Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) subsidy that ensures that all EU farmers receiving income support produce climate and environmental benefits as part of their farming activities. …”
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Synergic effects of vegetation structure and food supply underlie higher abundance of a farmland specialist bird in organic than in conventional arable fields by Adriana Hološková, Tomáš Kadlec, Jiří Reif

“…Organic farming can thus be a suitable agri-environmental measure within the Common Agricultural Policy even in intensively used landscapes dominated by large fields.…”
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Biodiversität und nachhaltige Landnutzung in Großschutzgebieten by Hubert Job, Manuel Woltering, Barbara Warner, Stefan Heiland, Eckhard Jedicke, Peter Meyer, Birte Nienaber, Tobias Plieninger, Marco Pütz, Sven Rannow, Eick von Ruschkowski

“…Of further relevance to these calls for action is the field of tension between the necessity for strengthened process protection and the intensification of agriculture in the context of EU Common Agricultural Policy. …”
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European Permanent Grasslands: A Systematic Review of Economic Drivers of Change, Including a Detailed Analysis of the Czech Republic, Spain, Sweden, and UK by John Elliott, Sophie Tindale, Samantha Outhwaite, Fiona Nicholson, Paul Newell-Price, Novieta H. Sari, Erik Hunter, Pedro Sánchez-Zamora, Shan Jin, Rosa Gallardo-Cobos, Simona Miškolci, Lynn J. Frewer

“…A high reliance on public payments from the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), with uneven impact on mitigating PG losses and associated ES provisions, was identified, which needs to be considered in relation to ongoing CAP reform. …”
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Sentinel-1 Time Series for Crop Identification in the Framework of the Future CAP Monitoring by Emilie Beriaux, Alban Jago, Cozmin Lucau-Danila, Viviane Planchon, Pierre Defourny

“…In this upcoming Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform, the use of satellite imagery is taking an increasing role for improving the Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS). …”
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Policy, trade, economic, and technological aspects of improving nutrient intake and lifestyles in the European Union. by Rayner, M

“…Agricultural policy. 3.10 The Common Agriculture Policy should be subject to a regular and systematic health impact assessment. 3.11 Given that there are subsidies under the Common Agricultural Policy designed to increase consumption of surplus food, these should be directed towards promoting the consumption of foods for which there is strong evidence of a need for increased consumption in the EU for health reasons. …”

A Comprehensive Approach to Assess the Impact of Agricultural Production Factors on Selected Ecosystem Services in Poland by Waldemar Bojar, Wojciech Żarski, Renata Kuśmierek-Tomaszewska, Jacek Żarski, Piotr Baranowski, Jaromir Krzyszczak, Krzysztof Lamorski, Cezary Sławiński, Konstadinos Mattas, Christos Staboulis, Dimitrios Natos, Ahmet Ali Koç, Ahmet Bayaner, Álvaro Ojeda Roldán, Obdulia Parra Rivero

“…This research, conducted within the Polish use case of the AGRICORE project, aims to demonstrate the feasibility of establishing indicators depicted in three ES categories, which can be shaped under the actions of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The study was conducted based on national sources, mostly the database of the Central Statistical Office. …”
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Side effects of European eco schemes and agri-environment-climate measures on endangered species conservation: Clues from a case study in mountain vineyard landscapes by Mário Santos, Catarina Garcês, Ana Ferreira, Diogo Carvalho, Paulo Travassos, Rita Bastos, António Cunha, Edna Cabecinha, João Santos, João Alexandre Cabral

“…In Europe, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) encouraged the specialisation of agriculture and forestry systems by supporting schemes that promoted productivity, despite the socio-ecological changes’ detrimental effects on ecosystem services and biodiversity. …”
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Statutory Management Requirements on "Animal Identification and Registration" (Act A7, Act A8): monitoring methods for compliance and related costs in four Italian farms by Marisanna Speroni, Sara Carè, Lamberto Borrelli, Antonio Bruni, Giovanni Cabassi, Maurizio Cappelletti, Luigi Degano, Salvatore Claps, Lucia Sepe, Domenico Rufrano, Antonio Melchiorre Carroni, Paola Ruda, Mauro Salis, Marco Fedrizzi, Giulio Sperandio, Mauro Pagano, Roberto Fanigliulo, Mirko Guerrieri, Daniele Puri, Paolo Bazzoffi

“…The European and national laws concerning the identification and registration of livestock are meant to make possible their traceability and facilitate food safety and animal health, especially in case of a disease outbreak; such rules have also become prerequisites that farmers must meet to obtain single farm payments under the common agricultural policy. Failure to comply with these obligations entails the reduction or exclusion from direct payments. …”
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A DEEP LEARNING APPROACH FOR CROP TYPE MAPPING BASED ON COMBINED TIME SERIES OF SATELLITE AND WEATHER DATA by N. Addimando, M. Engel, F. Schwarz, M. Batič

“…The use case supports operational decisions when managing crops and the monitoring of actual vs. planned or reported agricultural land use (e.g., Common Agricultural Policy monitoring). Satellite data and weather data come at very different temporal and spatial resolutions: Sentinel-2 constellation nominally provides an observation of a field every 5 days at 10 m spatial resolution, while weather data has continuous hourly time series at multi-km spatial resolution. …”
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Perennial biomass cropping and use: Shaping the policy ecosystem in European countries by John Clifton‐Brown, Astley Hastings, Moritz vonCossel, Donal Murphy‐Bokern, Jon McCalmont, Jeanette Whitaker, Efi Alexopoulou, Stefano Amaducci, Larisa Andronic, Christopher Ashman, Danny Awty‐Carroll, Rakesh Bhatia, Lutz Breuer, Salvatore Cosentino, William Cracroft‐Eley, Iain Donnison, Berien Elbersen, Andrea Ferrarini, Judith Ford, Jörg Greef, Julie Ingram, Iris Lewandowski, Elena Magenau, Michal Mos, Martin Petrick, Marta Pogrzeba, Paul Robson, Rebecca L. Rowe, Anatolii Sandu, Kai‐Uwe Schwarz, Danilo Scordia, Jonathan Scurlock, Anita Shepherd, Judith Thornton, Luisa M. Trindade, Sylvia Vetter, Moritz Wagner, Pei‐Chen Wu, Toshihiko Yamada, Andreas Kiesel

“…PBCs can potentially contribute to Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) (2023–27) objectives provided they are carefully integrated into farming systems and landscapes. …”
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EUROPEAN UNION ACCESSION TOWARD SOUTHEAST EUROPE CHALLENGES AND DILEMMAS FOR SERBIAN AGRICULTURE by Danilo Tomić

“…Special role in that process has Common Agriculture Policy. Level of agricultural and economic development in the Balkan region countries is pretty low. …”
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