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Towards a greener Common Agricultural Policy

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Ensuring an environmentally friendly overhaul of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy will entail payments for environmental objectives, promoting High Nature Value Farmlands, improved flexibility and policy integration.

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Fig. 1: Trends in multiple socio-economic (yellow colour scale) and environmental (blue colour scale) indicators related to the CAP during the past period (2007–2013).
Fig. 2: The four steps that would make the CAP greener.

Alfred Portátil, Alberto Navarro and José Vicente López-Bao

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J.V.L.-B. was supported by a Ramon & Cajal research contract (RYC-2015-18932) from the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness.

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