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Post‐Brexit Policies for a Resilient Arable Farming Sector in England

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  • Mauro Vigani
  • Julie Urquhart
  • Jasmine Elizabeth Black
  • Robert Berry
  • Janet Dwyer
  • David Christian Rose

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With the withdrawal of the UK from the European Union and increasing pressures from climate change, English arable farming resilience is in a fragile position. Most Brexit impact assessments have focused on quantitative analysis, however here we take a qualitative approach to assess how future trade agreements could impact the resilience of the UK arable farming system. We discuss the main strategies that are currently taken by English arable farmers to improve resilience using evidence from a large‐scale survey in the East of England. Using information from a multi‐stakeholder workshop, we look at arable farming resilience in three forms characteristic of the farming system; namely, robustness, adaptability and transformability and how these relate to and are potentially influenced by three different Brexit trade scenarios. Stakeholders’ recommendations suggest that a ‘hard’ no‐deal scenario will require policies for social protection of farmers in more vulnerable rural areas, while in a ‘softer’ scenario a ‘public money for public goods’ policy could be implemented effectively by learning from previous environmental schemes. Nevertheless, resilience can be enhanced only by addressing structural and policy issues, such as generational renewal, advice and extension, tenancy duration limits and smarter PPP regulations, regardless of what post‐Brexit deal with the EU finally emerges. Avec le retrait du Royaume‐Uni de l'Union européenne et les pressions croissantes qu'exerce le changement climatique, le secteur des grandes cultures anglais est dans une situation de résilience fragile. La plupart des évaluations de l'impact du Brexit reposent principalement sur une analyse quantitative, mais nous adoptons ici une approche qualitative pour évaluer comment les futurs accords commerciaux pourraient affecter la résilience du système des grandes cultures au Royaume‐Uni. Nous examinons les principales stratégies que les cultivateurs prennent actuellement pour améliorer leur résilience, en utilisant des informations provenant d'une enquête à grande échelle dans l’est de l’angleterre. À partir des enseignements d'un atelier multipartite, nous observons la résilience des exploitations de grandes cultures selon trois caractéristiques du système agricole; à savoir, la robustesse, l'adaptabilité et la capacité de transformation, ainsi que la manière dont celles‐ci sont liées à et sont potentiellement influencées par trois scénarios de Brexit différents pour les échanges. Les recommandations des parties prenantes suggèrent qu'un scénario « dur » sans accord nécessitera des politiques de protection sociale des agriculteurs dans les zones rurales plus vulnérables, tandis que dans un scénario « plus doux », la mise en place d'une politique fondée sur l'octroi « d'argent public pour des biens d'intérêt public » pourrait être efficace si les leçons sont tirées des expériences précédentes pour la mise en œuvre des programmes environnementaux. Néanmoins, la résilience ne peut être renforcée qu'en s'attaquant aux problèmes de structure et d'action publique, tels que le renouvellement des générations, le conseil et la vulgarisation, la durée limitée des baux et les réglementations plus intelligentes pour les partenariat publics‐privés, quelle que soit la forme finale de l'accord d'après Brexit avec l'Union européenne. Angesichts des Austritts des Vereinigten Königreichs aus der Europäischen Union und der zunehmenden Gefährdung durch den Klimawandel befindet sich die Widerstandsfähigkeit des englischen Ackerbaus in einer schwierigen Lage. Die meisten Folgenabschätzungen in Bezug auf den Brexit haben sich auf quantitative Analysen konzentriert; wir nutzen hier jedoch einen qualitativen Ansatz, um zu beurteilen, wie sich zukünftige Handelsabkommen auf die Widerstandsfähigkeit des Ackerbausystems im Vereinigten Königreich auswirken könnten. Basierend auf den Ergebnissen einer groß angelegten Umfrage diskutieren wir die wichtigsten Strategien, die derzeit von Landwirtinnen und Landwirten zur Verbesserung der Widerstandsfähigkeit im Bereich Ackerbau verfolgt werden im Osten von England. Anhand von Informationen aus einem Multi‐Stakeholder‐Workshop untersuchen wir die Widerstandsfähigkeit des Ackerbaus im Hinblick auf drei für das landwirtschaftliche System charakteristische Formen, nämlich Robustheit, Anpassungs‐ und Transformationsfähigkeit. Des Weiteren betrachten wir, wie diese drei Formen mit drei verschiedenen Brexit‐Handelsszenarien zusammenhängen und potenziell von diesen beeinflusst werden. Die Empfehlungen der Stakeholder legen nahe, dass ein „hartes” No‐Deal‐;Szenario eine Politik der sozialen Absicherung von Landwirtinnen und Landwirten in schwächeren ländlichen Regionen erfordert. In einem „weicheren” Szenario könnte dagegen eine Politik der „öffentlichen Gelder für öffentliche Güter” wirksam umgesetzt werden, indem die Erfahrungen aus früheren Umweltprogrammen einbezogen werden. Nichtsdestotrotz kann die Widerstandsfähigkeit nur durch die Auseinandersetzung mit strukturellen und politischen Fragen wie dem Generationswechsel, allgemeiner und landwirtschaftlicher Beratung, Beschränkung der Pachtdauer und intelligentere ÖPP‐Regelungen verbessert werden, und zwar unabhängig davon, welches Abkommen sich nach dem Brexit schließlich mit der EU abzeichnen wird.

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  • Mauro Vigani & Julie Urquhart & Jasmine Elizabeth Black & Robert Berry & Janet Dwyer & David Christian Rose, 2021. "Post‐Brexit Policies for a Resilient Arable Farming Sector in England," EuroChoices, The Agricultural Economics Society, vol. 20(1), pages 55-61, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:eurcho:v:20:y:2021:i:1:p:55-61
    DOI: 10.1111/1746-692X.12255
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