Anna Agata Martikainen

The Influence of the Common Agricultural Policy on the Resilience of Farming Systems Warszawa 2025, 141 p. Copyright © 2025 by Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw Copyright © 2025 for this edition by Scholar Publishing House Ltd, Warsaw ISSN 2543-5817 ISBN 978-83-68091-21-2 DOI: 10.7366/9788368091212

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The work was supported by the National Science Centre, Poland, under research project “Wpływ Wspólnej Polityki Rolnej na odporność systemów rolniczych” [The Influence of the Common Agricultural Policy on the Resilience of Farming Systems] No. 2018/31/N/HS5/02173.

Contents
List of abbreviations  7
Introduction   9
The research problem and scope of analysis   9
The scientific questions and hypotheses   11
The research method   13
The book structure   15

1. The theory of resilience and farming systems   17
1.1. Resilience – definitions and concepts   17
1.2. Farming systems   22
1.3. Resilience in farming systems   24

2. Policies regarding the resilience of agriculture and farming systems   28
2.1. The evolution of the Common Agricultural Policy and its approach to resilience   29
2.2. The main characteristics of resilience policies   32

3. Research methods and data for resilience analysis   37
Techniques and tools   38
3.1. Methods and data in the top-down analysis    39
3.1.1. The Resilience Assessment Tool    40
3.1.2. Stakeholder proofing    43
3.2. Methods and data in the bottom-up analysis    43
3.2.1. Desk research   45
3.2.2. Case selection, identifying and approaching participants    46
3.2.3. Conducting interviews    47
3.2.4. Coding and analysis    48
3.2.5. The organisation of stakeholder check  48
3.2.6. Workshop on the CAP recommendations   49
3.3. The case study of a Polish fruit and vegetable farming system in the Lubelskie region    51

4. Research results  54
4.1. The results of the analysis of the CAP documents at two levels: goals and instruments  54
4.1.1. Goals and instruments enabling robustness   56
4.1.2. Goals and instruments enabling adaptability   59
4.1.3. Goals and instruments enabling transformability   62
4.1.4. Stakeholder proofing   63
4.1.5. A summary of the results of the top-down analysis   65
4.2. The results of the bottom-up analysis - stakeholders’ views on the impact of the CAP on the resilience of farming systems   69
4.2.1. The main challenges for the farming system   69
4.2.2. Resilience-enhancing strategies of the actors within the system   72
4.2.3. The influence of policies   77
4.2.4. The resources and network   82
4.2.5. A summary of stakeholder proofing   84
4.2.6. The identification of the strengths and weaknesses of policies in terms of resilience   85
4.2.7. The future of the CAP – the results of the workshop on policy recommendations   89
4.2.7.a. Round 1: Generic policy recommendations   89
4.2.7.b. Round 2: The CAP – recommendations   92
4.2.7.c. Round 3: Recommendations under two scenarios   95
4.2.7.d. A comparison of different future scenarios   99

Conclusions and future areas of research   101
Conclusions   101
Future areas of research   107

List of Figures   109
List of Tables    111
Reference List   112

Annex   129
Annex 1: List of documents for the ResAT analysis   129
Annex 2: Code book for interviews – part 1 – the first round of coding   131
Annex 3: Code book for interviews – part 2 – coding policies    142