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Initial situation Against the background of the Europe 2020 Strategy (smart, sustainable, inclusive growth), regionally very different developments are a challenge for rural development. Social innovations (SI) are seen alongside technical...
Initial situation The income of a farm fluctuates because the components of income (volumes, prices, agricultural payments, etc.) also fluctuate. Various influencing factors are cited in the literature as causes of price volatility in procurement and sales markets, including changes in supply and demand, environmental conditions (e.g. weather extremes resulting in crop failures), changes in trade policy (e.g. trade restrictions) or macroeconomic factors (e.g. global money supply)....
Initial situation Against the background of the Europe 2020 Strategy (smart, sustainable, inclusive growth) and the challenges of migration from rural regions as well as a high average age of the rural population, concepts are sought to maintain a viable and liveable rural area. The corresponding call in the Horizon 2020 research programme ("Business Models for Modern Rural Areas") aims to utilise the potential in rural areas. The food sector and rural areas are to be supported...
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is one of the EU's oldest and financially most important policies. Its main objectives are: i) to increase agricultural productivity by promoting technical progress, rationalisation and the best possible use of the factors of production, in particular labour; ii) thus to ensure a fair standard of living for the agricultural community, in particular by increasing per capita income; iii) to stabilise markets; iv) to ensure the availability of supplies; and...
Objective Agricultural policy, administration and the EU institutions (EU Regulation 1165/2008) require information on the development of agricultural markets in order to fulfill their legal duties. For this reason, the Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics and Mountain Farming has been producing forecasts on the supply of pigs and cattle for over 30 years. The forecasts were also carried out in 2021 using a regression model based on livestock census data. This method of market...
Baseline Within the framework of OECD bodies, OECD member and partner countries exchange information in committees and working groups on various topics of policy implementation and impact. Depending on the subject area, the AOD supports the specialist department of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management as the Austrian representative in specialist committees (e.g. APM - Working Party on Agricultural Policies and Markets) or represents Austria itself...
Objective The classification of agricultural and forestry holdings has the task of combining holdings into groups that are as homogeneous as possible with regard to certain criteria. Only the greatest possible homogeneity of the farms in a group guarantees that representative statements can be made on the basis of average figures in the presentation of the economic situation of agriculture. Since the 2010 agricultural structure survey, the production direction and economic size of a farm...
Initial situation The introduction of the European System of Accounts (ESA95) required the compilation of the Economic Accounts for Agriculture (EAA) according to the specifications of the EUROSTAT manual. Objective The aim of the project is to provide or estimate data on agricultural payments and taxes in agriculture in the required form and to forecast unpaid labor input in agriculture in annual work units (AWU). This project also repeatedly considers new tasks in connection with the EAA,...
Initial situation The increasing networking of markets requires more information, for example when assessing the competitiveness of farms and locations in different regions or with regard to the effects of changing economic, technological and political conditions on farms, farm structures and agricultural production. However, due to the different definitions of key figures and the methods used, international calculations are often difficult or impossible to compare. For this purpose,...
Initial situation The crises of recent years and their impact on price developments on international markets, changing agricultural policy and social conditions (e.g. animal welfare) and the spread of animal diseases (e.g. African swine fever) are just some of the challenges that Austrian pig farming has to face. In this respect, specialist advice tailored to the respective husbandry methods and operational conditions is becoming increasingly important. In this respect, the working group...
Initial situation The "Arable farming" working group advisory service has been a successful nationwide training and advisory focus for many years. The top priority is the higher qualification of farmers. Farm comparisons are an important part of the working group's work. The evaluation and analysis of individual farm records and the presentation of the most important production and economic parameters, together with the exchange of experience, form the basis for the work of the working...
Initial situation ommon Agricultural Policy (CAP) measures pursue objectives such as supporting farm incomes, increasing competitiveness or promoting the sustainable management of natural resources. The objectives and associated measures address and influence many different components (e.g. farms, natural resources) and actors of the entire agricultural, environmental and food system. Various methods and models can be used to assess the effects of changes in agricultural policy framework...
Martin Brückler In the course of the study "Future Crop Production" conducted in 2015, it became clear that there are certain information gaps with regard to important structural and production data. In particular, the lack of fundamental analyses on the processing and marketing structures of agricultural primary products was pointed out. The cereal sector is considered one of the most important areas of primary agricultural production in Austria. Within crop production, the largest shares...
Nowadays, digitalisation affects all areas of life, work and the world of work. Anyone who wants to actively participate in this social and technological development needs digital skills and knowledge. It is a matter of understanding the mechanisms and rules of the digital world and acquiring them in a pro-ductive and responsible way. The respective answer to the question about the present and future possibilities of teaching and learning with digital media has been shaped in recent years...
Imports of protein feed, especially in the form of soya and soya meal, are repeatedly the subject of discussions and criticism, especially from the environmental protection side, whereby the focus is usually only on soya imports. The aim of this project was to make a unique assessment of the supply of protein feed from domestic production in Austrian livestock farming. In the course of this project, a feed protein balance of Austrian agriculture - broken down into the main livestock...
Department II 2 of the BMNT is the managing authority of the Rural Development Programme 2014-2020 and is responsible for the multi-annual financial planning of this programme. In the course of audits in the programme period 2007-2013, the Austrian Court of Audit saw a need for improvement in the preparation of the financial plan. For further development, the BMNT needed accompanying technical support. The aim of the project was to improve the financial plan of the Rural Development...
Agriculture provides a wide range of functions and services that go far beyond the cultivation of agricultural land and the production of food. In addition to pure agricultural production or the production of marketable goods, farms produce a range of products and services (so-called non-commodity outputs or non-market goods) that represent different elements of "multifunctionality" in agriculture (OECD, 2001). These diverse products and services often have the characteristics of public...
The network of farms keeping voluntary accounts has been providing comprehensive data on the income situation of agriculture and forestry in Austria for many years. However, ongoing methodological changes and adjustments to the framework conditions make it difficult to compare the annually collected data over time. Significant innovations are, for example, the conversion of the farm classification based on standard gross margin (SGM) to standard output (SO) with the 2010 agricultural...
Martin Brückler, Andreas Reindl Organic farming has been an important part of agricultural production in Austria for many years. Already about 20% of the agricultural land is farmed organically. The Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management (BMFLUW) is making efforts to promote and further develop organic farming by focusing on specific measures. Information on the yields per hectare of the various crops as well as total quantities, local differences,...
Coordination of “package A” knowledge transfer and Innovation (Priority 1) The Federal Institute for Agriculture was involved in various stages of evaluations of the previous Rural Development Programmes as well as in the ex-ante evaluation and the 2017 evaluation of the Rural Development Programme 2014-2020. Priority 1 was evaluated as part of the ex-ante evaluation and the 2017 evaluation. In the previous programme period, the education measures in Axis 1 and 3 were evaluated....
Coordination of "Evaluation Package B" - Improving Farm Viability and Competitiveness Initial situation The Federal Institute for Agricultural Economics was involved in various stages of evaluations of previous Rural Development (LE) programmes as well as in the evaluation of the current LE programme (LE 14-20). The evaluation is to be carried out according to the specifications of the European Commission and the evaluation plan laid down in the Austrian LE programme. For the evaluation of...
Coordination of “Evaluation Package E”, focus areas “Improving water management“ (4B) and “Preventing soil erosion and improving soil management” (4C) in the Austrian Agri-environment Programme Initial situation The Federal Institute for Agriculture was involved in various stages of the evaluations of the previous rural development programmes as well as in the ex ante evaluation of the 2014-2020 programme. Therefore, it has expertise in various areas of the programme, which is...
The Federal Institute for Agriculture was involved in various stages of the evaluations of the Rural Development Programmes as well as in the ex ante evaluation of the 2014-2020 programme. Now the topic of technical assistance within the framework of the Rural Development Programme 2014-2020 is also to be evaluated in accordance with EU requirements. Objective The objective of the project is to evaluate the payments made for "technical assistance" under the Rural Development Programme...
In the current programming period (2014-2020) of the Common Agricultural Policy, the European Commission offers the possibility to claim costs for projects in a simplified way (European Commission, 2015). When applied, eligible costs are calculated according to a predefined methodology based on performance, results or some other costs. It is no longer necessary to trace each euro of co-financed expenditure to individual accounting documents, which means a significant simplification of...
Ongoing cooperation in the "Federal Commission for the Survey and Evaluation of the Hardship Conditions of Mountain Farms" (BUKO) as well as in the editorial and project team of the BUKO was the focus of this project for many years. Documents were prepared for the BUKO, the editorial team and the BMLFUW, especially in connection with the implementation of the mountain farm cadastre. In recent years, the focus has been on implementing the concept of aggravating points for all farms in the...