Common Agricultural Policy Strategic Plans : smokescreens or instruments for evidence-based policymaking?

Erjavec, Emil (avtor), Rac, Ilona (avtor), Bertolozzi-Caredio, Daniele (avtor)

Alongside the devolution of decision-making powers to Member States, the latest reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) introduced CAP Strategic Plans to enhance the design and implementation of increasingly complex policy objec-tives and to reinforce the use of evidence-based policymaking (EBPM). This paper is based on desk research, combining a comparative review of European Union (EU) regulations and programming documents, and insights from the Tools4CAP project, which conducted interviews, surveys, and focus groups across Member States. The gaps in strategic planning are evident in the weak logical connection between individ-ual phases of CSP preparation and the weak evidence-based justification of decisions regarding the selection and design of interventions. Quantitative tools and scientific evidence were underutilised, while political-economy constraints and path depend-ency dominated decision-making. As a result, CAP Strategic Plans were often devel-oped through a series of disconnected tasks, producing documents with loosely linked sections lacking overall coherence. The upcoming integration of CAP planning into broader National and Regional Partnership Plans may simplify procedures but risks weakening EBPM principles. Systematic integration of science into planning, method-ology development, interdisciplinarity, and better communication between research-ers and decision-makers are needed to realise the ideal concept of EBPM. Institutional capacities for the use of evidence need to be strengthened, mandatory impact assess-ments and open data platforms introduced, and dialogue between science and policy enhanced. The limitations include reliance on secondary data and qualitative insights rather than detailed empirical evaluation across all Member States.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: common agricultural policy, strategic planning, policy cycle, science-policy dialogue, Multiannual Financial Framework
• Vrsta gradiva: Članek v reviji
• Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: BF - Biotehniška fakulteta
• Status publikacije: Objavljeno
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Datum objave: 19.12.2025
• Leto izida: 2025
• Št. strani: Str. 7-21
• Številčenje: Vol. 80, no. 3
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-179693
• UDK: 631
• ISSN pri članku: 2281-1559
• DOI: 10.36253/rea-16856
• COBISS.SI-ID: 269147651
• Datum objave v RUL: 20.02.2026

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: Rivista di economia agraria
• Skrajšan naslov: Riv. econ. agrar.
• Založnik: Franco Angeli, Firenze university press
• ISSN: 2281-1559
• COBISS.SI-ID: 175746819

Licence

• Licenca: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva 4.0 Mednarodna
• Povezava: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.sl
• Opis: To je standardna licenca Creative Commons, ki daje uporabnikom največ možnosti za nadaljnjo uporabo dela, pri čemer morajo navesti avtorja.

Sekundarni jezik

• Jezik: Slovenski jezik
• Ključne besede: kmatijstvo, agrarna ekonomija, skupna kmetijska politika, strateško načrtovanje

Projekti

• Financer: EC - European Commission
• Številka projekta: 101086311
• Naslov: Innovative Toolbox empowering effective CAP governance towards EU ambitions
• Akronim: Tools4CAP