Impacts of selected Ecological Focus Area options in European farmed landscapes on climate regulation and pollination services: a systematic map protocol
This systematic map protocol responds to an urgent policy need to evaluate key environmental benefits
of new compulsory greening measures in the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), with the aim
of building a policy better linked to environmental performance. The systematic map will focus on Ecological Focus
Areas (EFAs), in which larger arable farmers must dedicate 5% of their arable land to ecologically beneficial habitats,
landscape features and land uses. The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre has used a software tool called
the ‘EFA calculator’ to inform the European Commission about environmental benefits of EFA implementation. However,
there are gaps in the EFA calculator’s coverage of ecosystem services, especially ‘global climate regulation’, and
an opportunity to use systematic mapping methods to enhance its capture of evidence, in advance of forthcoming
CAP reforms. We describe a method for assembling a database of relevant, peer-reviewed research conducted in all
agricultural landscapes in Europe and neighbouring countries with similar biogeography, addressing the primary
question: what are the impacts of selected EFA features in agricultural land on two policy-relevant ecosystem service
outcomes—global climate regulation and pollination? The method is streamlined to allow results in good time for the
current, time-limited opportunity to influence reforms of the CAP greening measures at European and Member State
level.
OTTOY Sam;
ANGILERI Vincenzo;
GIBERT Caroline;
PARACCHINI Maria-Luisa;
POINTEREAU Philippe;
TERRES Jean;
VAN ORSHOVEN Jos;
VRANKEN Liesbet;
DICKS Lynn;
2018-12-07
BioMed Central
JRC112060
2047-2382 (online),
https://environmentalevidencejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13750-018-0122-6,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC112060,
10.1186/s13750-018-0122-6 (online),
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