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CAD : Sustainable Farming Contract Audrey Boisron & Agnès Ricroch /19

The Sustainable Farming Agreement in French: Contrat d’Agriculture Durable CAD

Process, actors and scientific content of the CAD implementation

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Audrey Boisron and Agnès Ricroch

CAD : Sustainable Farming Contract Audrey Boisron & Agnès Ricroch 2 /19

Plan

I. Presentation of the Sustainable Farming Agreement (CAD in French)

II. The official process of implementation

III. Method: the choice of two measures studied

IV. First results of talks & comments


I / Presentation of the CAD

• It is an voluntary agreement between a farmer and the préfet de département

valid for 5 years.

• “It involves more than the application of usual good farming practices.”

• It relates to a set of pre-established measures chosen by farmer.

• One measure at least has an environmental purpose.

• It is validated by the Departemental Commission for Agricultural Policy

(in French: CDOA Commission Départementale d'Orientation de l'Agriculture).


I.1. Principle and functioning

Two kinds of subsidies:

1/ investment and capital expenditure

2/ annual aids to areas in compensation for any losses of income

(e.g. due to reduced production)

and

additional cost brought about environmentally friendly agriculture

Departmental average is

27.500 € for 5 years per agreement

but no limit per agreement


I.2. Requirements of a measure

A series of specifications will determine :

(i) the objectives of the agreement

(ii) the field of application

(iii) the resources to be employed and results to be achieved

(iv) the financial contribution

(v) the procedures for control and supervision

(vi) the nature of any envisaged sanction.


II/ Official process of CAD Implementation

Instructions of the circular of the Ministry of Agriculture

October 30th, 2003


National programme

Ministry of Agriculture

Requirementsof environmental

measures

DEPARTEMENT / Dir. Agriculture

REGION / Dir. Agriculture

1 / Regional work group

manages the operational budget

identifies social and economic issues

determines actions financing and

possibly additional budget

CircularOctober 30th 2003

Official processfrom the circular of Directorate-General for Forest and Rural Matters (DGFAR)

4/ Validation of requirements final validation by the CDOA

publication of the order of the préfet de

département

3/ draw up the regional agri- environmental synthesis

2/ Development of propositions consultation of the local stakeholders

determines territories, issues, selected

actions and their requirements

final validation by the Area Commission

for Agricultural Policy


National levelMinistry of Agriculture

National environmental measures

Articulation for the access to scientific content

DEPARTEMENT Dir. Agriculture

1- Consultation with local actors

2- Definition of the territories

3- Choice of the measures

4- Modifications and adaptations

REGION Dir. Agriculture

1- consultation with Departmental-

Directorates (DDAF)2- financial management

3- drafting of the regional synthesis

Scientific knowledge and other contextual evidences …

Scientific

knowledge

+ contextual

evidence

+ local framework

of stakeholders

ScientificKnowledge+ contextual

evidence+ local framework of

administrations(Regional Dir. Ecology)

During the second semester of 2003


III / The choice of the measures studied


One specific measure for each département

to examine a local specificity

Method: How to chose two measures in a département?

social and economic Environmental

Quality of waterErosion

Biodiversity

Landscape

Quantity of water

One similar measure for the 4 départements

ISSUES

by checking requirements

with two key-words

pasture and

grassland


Two measures studied in the 3 départements

« Mizottes » - shorre

flood in the «marais poitevin»

Fallows

Hedges

Extensive management of grassland

Preservation of marshes Improving the quality of fallows

for fauna preservation

Restoration of hedges

VENDEE LOIR- ET -CHER ILLE - ET-VILAINE

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2 2 2


IV/ First results of the talks in Vendée and Loir-et-Cher


Question 16c : Questionnaire 3 (Loir-et-Cher)

DépartementalDir. Agri

Fallows measure

knowledge from

Departmental huntersFederation

Extensive managements of grassland

knowledge from

Chamber of agriculture

Départemental

Commission for

Agricultural Policy

(CDOA)

Farmers UnionFDSEA

Technical association

in charge of financing(ADASEA)

Economic trainingfirst administrative

employinterested in economy

and biodiversity

REGIONAL Dir. Agri.

Other stakeholders

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OA

Chamber of Agri.

The Departmental Dir. Agri can modify

regional requirements only to make them

more restrictive.

Person in charge of the CAD

implementation


Question 16c : Questionnaire 1 (Vendée)

Departmental

Dir. Agri

Academic scientific sourcesINRA

UniversityConferences

working groups

Knowledge from associations

ADEVE (Environment defence)LPO (Birds protection)

Hunter’s federationAssociation of fishermen

Departmental

Commission for

Agricultural Policy

(CDOA)

Farmers UnionFDSEA

ADASEA

Chamber of agriculture

Luc Guyau

Scientific profileinterested in

nature protection and in scientific research

Person in charge of the CAD

implementation

REGIONAL Dir. Agri.

The Departmental Dir. Agri can

modify regional requirements only to

make them more restrictive.


Origins of measures

Marsh preservation measure

– copying from a previous action “Marais poitevin” written by the regional Dir. Agri of Poitou-Charentes

for the 1st agri-environmental measures (1990’s)

– further technical points concerning local habitat from NGO’s

Fallows & extensive grassland measures

– The departmental Dir. Agri (DDAF) made a synthesis of two regional measures

– To approach the local farmland’s context (economic)

– fallows measure considered more technical points from the hunters association

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Question 31: sources of information for the CAD redaction?

1 2 3 4

Existent measures (Agri-environmental measures CTE, OLAE, good farming practices (BCAE in French), European directives ● ● ● ○

Unpublished papers/reports● ● ● ●

Expert opinion from outside the working-group => NGO’s => scientific

organisms● ● ● ●

Documentation or personal accounts of traditional practices in this field ● ● ● ●

By phone / By meeting people ● ● ● ●Farmer’s magazinespublications from local authorities ● ● ● ○

Published popular articles “ by memory” ● ● ● ○Published reviews/books/handbooks ● ● ● ○Electronic / web-based material ○ ○ ○ ○Published scientific papers ● ○ ○ ○

Questionnaire n°Sources used

Loir et Cher Vendée


Comment 1

In practice, a quite large room to manœuvre :

• to change the formulation,

• to look for additional pieces of information,

• to decide which people can be contacted for the local consultation.

though it is not mandatory.


Comment 2

• The Departmental Dir. Agri can modify regional requirements only to

make them more restrictive.

• A short delay: few months for consultation and approx. one month

for redaction.

• Previous measures are principal sources of the new ones.

• Few persons are in charge at Departmental level (Dir. Agriculture)

The role of the departmental redactor is major, because he is often

the only one to decide of sources of scientific knowledge to use.


Comment 3

1 2 3 4

To find relevant information is easy difficult (10)?To support your decision-making is … quick time-consuming (10)?

1

8

3

7

3

3

4

5

How much published information is available?

none Enough (10)10 0 6 6

Were you able to identify knowledge gaps that required further research? ● ● ○ ●Did you search information enabling you to evaluate the outcome of the measure according to the farm size? ● ○ ○ ○Did you identify limits of available scientific information? ● ● ● ●Have you approached any person or organisation with a view to getting the research done? ○ ○ ○ ● if yes, was this person an expert ? A private consultant ? … ○ ○ ○ ●Has any research subsequently been initiated? ○ ○ ○ ●

Loir et Cher Vendée

Questionnaire n°Questions


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