Enhancing the effectiveness of CAP greening as a conservation tool: a plea for regional targeting considering landscape constraints

M Díaz, ED Concepción - Current Landscape Ecology Reports, 2016 - Springer
Abstract The EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has tried to counteract negative impacts
of intensive agriculture on biodiversity and associated ecosystem services mostly by means …

Indicators of agricultural intensity and intensification: a review of the literature

I Ruiz-Martinez, E Marraccini, M Debolini… - Italian Journal of …, 2015 - agronomy.it
Since the 1960s, research has dealt with agricultural intensification (AI) as a solution to
ensure global food security. Recently, sustainable intensification (SI) has increasingly been …

Perceived ecosystem services synergies, trade-offs, and bundles in European high nature value farming landscapes

T Plieninger, M Torralba, T Hartel, N Fagerholm - Landscape ecology, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Context Around 30% of European agricultural landscapes are classified as high
nature value (HNV) farmlands. Current policies emphasize the multifunctionality of these …

[HTML][HTML] Drivers of irrigated olive grove expansion in Mediterranean landscapes and associated biodiversity impacts

R Morgado, PF Ribeiro, JL Santos, F Rego… - Landscape and Urban …, 2022 - Elsevier
Over the last 30 years, olive farming has experienced a fast and large-scale intensification
process across its Mediterranean range, that is reshaping Mediterranean farmland …

[HTML][HTML] Mountain farmland protection and fire-smart management jointly reduce fire hazard and enhance biodiversity and carbon sequestration

S Pais, N Aquilué, J Campos, Â Sil, B Marcos… - Ecosystem Services, 2020 - Elsevier
The environmental and socio-economic impacts of wildfires are foreseen to increase across
southern Europe over the next decades regardless of increasing resources allocated for fire …

High Nature Value farming: From indication to conservation

MW Strohbach, ML Kohler, J Dauber, S Klimek - Ecological indicators, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The maintenance of High Nature Value (HNV) farming is a priority for reaching the
target of halting biodiversity loss in the European Union by 2020. Nevertheless, since the …

A Mediterranean silent spring? The effects of olive farming intensification on breeding bird communities

R Morgado, J Santana, M Porto… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2020 - Elsevier
Combining biodiversity conservation with the agricultural production needed to meet the
rising world food demand is a global challenge. This is a case in point for olive farming in the …

Nature-based solutions to wildfires in rural landscapes of Southern Europe: let's be fire-smart!

A Regos, S Pais, JC Campos… - International journal of …, 2023 - CSIRO Publishing
Extreme wildfires are expected to increase in Southern Europe, due to climate change and
rural abandonment. Fire management is focused on suppression, which accelerates the …

Changes in land-cover within high nature value farmlands inside and outside Natura 2000 sites in Europe: A preliminary assessment

E Anderson, C Mammides - Ambio, 2020 - Springer
Low-intensity agriculture is important for the conservation of many European habitats and
species. However, biodiverse farmlands—also referred to as high nature value (HNV) …

The effect of the Common Agricultural Policy reforms on intentions towards food production: Evidence from livestock farmers

A Barnes, LA Sutherland, L Toma, K Matthews… - Land use policy, 2016 - Elsevier
Reform of the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) contributes to uncertainty in farm
planning and a number of studies have examined farmer intentions to possible future …