The ESOF project in the EU policy context

1. The ESOF project in the EU policy context EU-seminar, 28th November 2007, Brussels Dr. Mara Miele Professor Terry Marsden Dr. Selyf Morgan

2. CAP Reform Processes and Multifunctionality • Multifunctionality as a desired goal • Agenda 2000: Pillar II promoting Multifunctional role harnessed to Rural Development

3. CAP Reform Processes and Multifunctionality • 2003: Single Payment Schemes and enhanced Pillar II measures • Health Check- Consultation • 2013: Final decoupling? • What next for Multifunctionality?

4. Under the emerging rural development paradigm, to be multifunctional an activity must: • Add income and employment opportunities to the agricultural sector • Contribute to the construction of a new agricultural sector that corresponds to the needs and expectations of the society • Imply a reconfiguration of rural resources in and beyond the farm

5. Rural Development Plans Axis I: Enhancement of the competitiveness of the agriculture and forestry sectors

6. Rural Development Plans Axis II: Improvement of the environment and countryside

7. Rural Development Plans Axis III: Quality of life in the countryside and diversification of rural economy

8. Rural Development Plans Share of the EAFRD budget in each country/region devoted to each Axis Axis IV: LEADER approach for Axes I-III

9. Entrepreneurial Skill Development 1. E-skill development as a learning process: learning events and episodes constructed as a process over variable times and spaces. 2. Importance of new perspectives, creating novelty and the economic and social capability of detachment from prevailing conditions. 3. Skills sets and pathways as a form of social and spatial contingency- a social (empowering) space and remixing the economic, social and ecological.

10. 4. Combinations of internal relational and external arena. 5. Ways of dealing with the contradictory and vulnerable policy frameworks which surround farming. 6. Multifunctionality as an active process

11. New remit for EU Agricultural Policy? • From overproduction to scarcity • A new scenario of scarcity contrasting starkly with the post-productivist assumptions of agricultural policy in the latter period of the C20th • Indicators in the CAP reform Health Check e.g. the removal of set-aside • Similar concerns from WP3 • the rise of eastern economies; changes in diet; climate change with its attendant effects on water resources and the development of bio-fuels

12. ‘Declining crop yields, especially in Africa, could leave hundreds of millions without the ability to produce or purchase sufficient food. At mid to high latitudes, crop yields may increase for moderate temperature rises (2 - 3°C), but then decline with greater amounts of warming. At 4°C and above, global food production is likely to be seriously affected….. …..Developed countries in lower latitudes will be more vulnerable - or example, water availability and crop yields in southern Europe are expected to decline by 20% with a 2°C increase in global temperatures. Regions where water is already scarce will face serious difficulties and growing costs.’ (STERN REVIEW: The Economics of Climate Change, 2006)

13. “Livestock are one of the most significant contributors to today’s most serious environmental problems. Urgent action is required to remedy the situation.” Henning Steinfeld, Chief of FAO’s Livestock Information and Policy Branch With increased prosperity, people are consuming more meat and dairy products every year. Global meat production is projected to more than double from 229 million tonnes in 1999/2001 to 465 million tonnes in 2050, while milk output is set to climb from 580 to 1043 million tonnes. FAO report, Livestock’s Long Shadow –Environmental Issues and Options (2006)