Data Requirements, Availability and Gaps in Agri-Environment Indicators (Aeis) in Europe
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ISSN 1681-4789 ISSN 1977-0375 Exer in vulla faci blamconse euis nibh el utat dip ex elestisim ex elestisim dip el utat nibh euis blamconse faci vulla in Exer nim venis siscilit augiati Rilis M e t h o d o l o g i e s & Working papers Data requirements, availability and gaps in agri-environment indicators (AEIs) in Europe 2011 edition 2009 edition Methodologies and Working papers Data requirements, availability and gaps in agri-environment indicators (AEIs) in Europe 2011 edition Europe Direct is a service to help you find answers to your questions about the European Union. Freephone number (*): 00 800 6 7 8 9 10 11 (*) Certain mobile telephone operators do not allow access to 00 800 numbers or these calls may be billed. More information on the European Union is available on the Internet (http://europa.eu). Cataloguing data can be found at the end of this publication. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2011 ISBN 978-92-79-22086-9 ISSN 1977-0375 doi:10.2785/20744 Cat. No KS-RA-11-022-EN-N Theme: Agriculture and fisheries Collection: Methodologies & Working papers © European Union, 2011 Reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledged. Data requirements, availability and gaps in Agri-environment indicators (AEIs) in Europe This document is the result of the DireDate project's task 1. DireDate stands for 'Direct and indirect data needs linked to the farms for agri-environmental indicators'. The DireDate project is a study financed by Eurostat, European Commission, and undertaken by a consortium led by ALTERRA (NL) (Service Contract 40701.2009.001-2009.354). The general objective of DireDate is “to create a framework for setting up a sustainable system for collecting a set of data from farmers and other sources that will serve primarily European and national statisticians for creating the agreed 28 agri-environmental indicators (AEIs) and thus serve policy makers, but as well agricultural and environmental researchers, observers of climate change and other environmental issues linked to agriculture”. Authors and affiliation Finn P. Vinther, Oene Oenema, Lucy Wilson, Per Nielsen Kudsk, Berien Elbersen, Chris Procter, Nick Hutchings, Marta Peréz-Soba Ib S. Kristensen, Christy van Beek Hanne D. Poulsen, Aarhus University, Wageningen University ADAS UK Ltd, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, and Research Center, Woodthorne, Research Centre Foulum, ALTERRA, P.O. Box 47, Wolverhampton, PO Box 50, DK-8830 Tjele, NL-6700 Wageningen, WV6 8TQ, Denmark The Netherlands United Kingdom Editors Johan Selenius, Ludivine Baudouin, Anne Miek Kremer - Eurostat The views expressed in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission and/or of the institutions or countries in which authors work. Neither the European Commission nor authors are responsible for the use that may be made of the information contained in this document. Data requirements, availability and gaps in AEIs in Europe 3 Table of contents Authors and affiliation.................................................................................................................... 3 Editors ........................................................................................................................................... 3 Table of contents........................................................................................................................... 4 1. Executive summary ................................................................................................................... 6 2. Introduction.............................................................................................................................. 10 3. AEIs and factsheets ................................................................................................................ 12 3.1. Types of AEIs .......................................................................................................... 12 3.2. Outline of factsheets................................................................................................ 13 3.3. Data sources ........................................................................................................... 15 Farm Structure Survey (FSS)............................................................................ 15 Survey on Agricultural Production methods (SAPM) ........................................ 15 Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) ........................................................ 16 4. First set of AEIs ....................................................................................................................... 17 AEI 5 - Mineral fertiliser consumption ............................................................................ 17 AEI 6 - Consumption of pesticides ................................................................................. 23 AEI 7 - Irrigation ............................................................................................................. 27 AEI 8 - Energy use ......................................................................................................... 33 AEI 11.1 - Soil cover....................................................................................................... 37 AEI 11.2 - Tillage practices ............................................................................................ 41 AEI 11.3 - Manure storage ............................................................................................. 44 AEI 12 - Intensification / extensification ......................................................................... 48 AEI 15 - Gross nitrogen balance .................................................................................... 53 AEI 16 - Risk of pollution by phosphorus ....................................................................... 58 AEI 18 - Ammonia emissions ......................................................................................... 66 AEI 19 - Greenhouse gas emissions.............................................................................. 71 AEI 26 - Soil quality ........................................................................................................ 75 5. Second set of AEIs.................................................................................................................. 79 AEI 1 Agri-environmental commitments......................................................................... 79 AEI 2 - Agricultural areas under Natura 2000 ................................................................ 83 Data requirements, availability and gaps in AEIs in Europe 4 AEI 3 - Farmers’ training levels and use of environmental advisory services................ 87 AEI 4 - Area under organic farming................................................................................ 90 AEI 9 - Land use change................................................................................................ 94 AEI 10.1 - Cropping patterns.......................................................................................... 98 AEI 10.2 - Livestock patterns ....................................................................................... 101 AEI 13 - Specialisation ................................................................................................. 104 AEI 14 - Risk of farmland abandonment ...................................................................... 106 AEI 17 - Pesticide risk .................................................................................................. 109 AEI 20 - Water abstraction ........................................................................................... 113 AEI 21 - Soil erosion..................................................................................................... 118 AEI 22 - Genetic diversity............................................................................................. 121 AEI 23 - High nature value farmland ............................................................................ 123 AEI 24 - Production of renewable energy .................................................................... 127 AEI 25 - Population trends of farmland birds ............................................................... 130 AEI 27.1 - Water quality – Nitrate pollution .................................................................. 133 AEI 27.2 - Water quality – Pesticide pollution .............................................................. 136 AEI 28 - Landscape – State and diversity .................................................................... 139 6. Overview tables..................................................................................................................... 142 6.1 Policy needs ........................................................................................................... 142 6.2 Data requirements.................................................................................................. 151 6.3 Links between AEIs................................................................................................ 161 6.4 Data sources .......................................................................................................... 170 7. Results and discussion.......................................................................................................... 173 7.1 Links to policies .....................................................................................................