Behavioural, Ecological and Socio-economic
Tools for Modelling Agricultural Policy
BESTMAP’s grant proposal is now part of the RIO Journal. The document provides extensive information about the project’s specific objectives, overall aims, concept and methodology. It also highlights the specific approaches to achieve the expected impacts of BESTMAP on the agricultural sector, stakeholders, EU government policy makers, farmers and many others. Find the paper here. RIO publishes outputs across the research cycle, including research proposals, ideas,...
In the spring of 2020 BESTMAP conducted a large-scale interview campaign among farmers in the project’s five case study areas: the UK, Germany, Spain, the Czech Republic and Serbia, ranging from individual hobby farmers to large agro-businesses in different environmental conditions. About 25 telephone or face-to-face interviews across each case study area collected information on general and behavioural characteristics of the farms, farmers’ attitudes towards farming, and...
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, BESTMAP keeps on taking action towards the project's ultimate goal - to develop a new modelling framework and transform future EU rural policies’ design and monitoring. About 20 members of the BESTMAP team met online from 27 to 29 April 2020 for a virtual workshop, in order to develop the BESTMAP modelling directives together. The goal is to build on open-source modelling platforms and predict policy change impacts on biodiversity, delivery of...
BESTMAP joins forces with two European projects to enhance agricultural policies in the European Union. AGRICORE, BESTMAP and MIND STEP build a strong cluster, which aims at developing a highly modular and customisable suite of tools to model capabilities in the agriculture sector. On 31 October 2017, the European Commission opened a call for projects aiming to improve the modelling capabilities for agriculture which would ultimately support evidence-based policymaking in the...
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BESTMAP held its official kick-off meeting from 23 September to 25 September in Brussels, Belgium, where partners met for the start of the four-year research and innovation action. Twelve partner organisations from seven European countries gathered to discuss the first steps towards developing behavioural, ecological and socio-economic tools for modelling agricultural policy. The main goals of the project are to: develop a behavioural theoretical modelling framework...
Nearly half of the EU land is farmland. The livelihood of over ten million farmers and the sustainability of agro-ecosystems, including food, bioenergy, water, carbon storage and biodiversity, are directly affected by EU policy instruments. These policies have, so far, failed to stop environmental degradation. BESTMAP (Behavioural, Ecological and Socio-economic Tools for Modelling Agricultural Policy) aims to develop a new flexible, interoperable and customisable framework that will take...
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