Farmers and the new green architecture of the EU common agricultural policy: a behavioural experiment

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Project description

This behavioural experiment with farmers assessed the effect of two policy features of the new green architecture of the EU common agricultural policy on the adoption of environmentally friendly practices: (1) increasing mandatory adoption and (2) shifting budget to voluntary schemes, by decreasing direct payments.

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Final report: Is there a final report presenting the results and conclusions of this project?

Yes

Final report

See the final report

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Poland

Warsaw

Who is behind the project?

Institution: European Commission

Team: JRC Competence Centre on Behavioural Insights

Project status:

Completed

Methods

Methodology: Online Experiment

Could you self-grade the strength of the evidence generated by this study?: 7

What is the project about?

Policy area(s): Agriculture, Environment

Topic(s): Decision-making, Financial Aids

Date published:

17 January 2022

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