The "Greening" measures of the EU's CAP, implemented in 2015, have been intensively debated in terms of their effectiveness and efficiency for agricultural, environmental, and climate outcomes. This study explores the fine-scale spatiotemporal dynamics of Ecological Focus Areas (EFAs) (with a...

Der Deutsche Verband für Landschaftspflege (DVL) hat 2014 ein Modell entwickelt, das eine stärkere Umweltorientierung der Agrarzahlungen bewirken soll (Neumann und Dierking, 2014). Dieses Modell firmiert unter dem Schlagwort „Gemeinwohlprämie“ und wird seitdem kontinuierlich...

2013 wurde die Gemeinsame Agrarpolitik mit dem Ziel reformiert, die negativen Umweltwirkungen der Landwirtschaft zu senken. Um Fördergelder der EU zu erhalten, müssen Landwirte in der Förderperiode von 2014 bis 2022 auf ihren Flächen mit dem sogenannten „Greening“ bestimmte...

The article describes the reform path of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) since 1992. The largest share of agricultural subsidies in Germany (€7.2 billion) is granted through the CAP with significant room for manoeuvre in terms of content. Between 1992-2013, the old, protectionist...

Oil palm plantations have expanded rapidly in the last decades. This large-scale land-use change has had great impacts on both the areas converted to oil palm and their surroundings. Howev-er, research on the impacts of oil palm agriculture is scattered and patchy, and no clear overview ex-ists....

Spatially-explicit simulation models are commonly used to study complex ecological and socio-economic research questions. Often these models depend on detailed input data, such as initial land-cover maps to set up model simulations. Here we present the landscape generator EFFortS-LGraf that...