Policy Analysis
Think Tank activities have focused on three issues:
- world food and environmental security;
- renewable energies;
- public goods from private land.
Its first main policy paper on ‘Public Goods from Private Land’, carried out by a RISE Task Force led by Professor Allan Buckwell, was completed in December 2009. The study focused on the nature and scale of public goods and services which land managers (farmers and foresters) currently provide. Using the available evidence on the range of environmental and man-made landscape services which multi-functional land management can offer, the report presents a series of mechanisms which could be used to deliver services not provided for by the market. The RISE Task Force report report was instrumental in launching discussions on the subject in the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) as well as in several European Parliament Committees.
Since then, RISE has worked on a tender contract alongside the IEEP advising the European Parliament on the best tools to deliver public goods through the CAP, to be published in June.
RISE has also issued a paper to to the European Parliament warning on the dangers of an EU-Mercosur FTA for European farmers, read the position paper here.
In July 2011, RISE published a study for the European Parliament, advising on the tools for the European Agricultural Policy to encourage the provision of public goods. The study was a joint publication between the IEEP, the vTI and the INEA. The study aims to provide evidence for the undersupply of environmental and social public goods associated with agriculture, and to suggest concrete policies to bridge the gaps in provision mainly through the CAP but also through other flanking measure. Read the report here, and please feel free to contact us at the address below for further information.
RISE has also been involved in the organisation and leading and/or participating in several conferences such as:
- Conference on Food, Feed and Bio-energy; Priorities and Dilemmas’ (2008), European Commission Green Week (annual).
- The annual Forums on the Future of Agriculture taking place in Brussels and sister events in Budapest, Kiev and Moscow among others.
- Numerous workshops and roundtables discussing public goods provision through agriculture and sustainable food chains, among others.
