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BAB 061/22: Relief for agricultural und forestry sector within the framework of national emissions certificate trading
Within the framework of the eco-social tax reform of 2022, a gradual introduction of a national emission allowance trading system (nEHS) is planned, starting with an introductory phase from 1 July 2022. In connection with the introduction of the nEHS, a relief mechanism will be created to offset the additional costs from the CO2 price for agriculture and forestry. This is to ensure that domestic food production is not disadvantaged in relation to European and international competition....
BAB 063/22: Communicating roots: co-learning to improve rural resilience and governance - CoROOTS (ERASMUS+ Projekt)
Co-learning methods to improve resilience management in rural areas The project was applied for on the initiative of the Prout Research Institute in Portugal in order to enable a scientific exchange of co-learning approaches developed in research projects in recent years, to disseminate them further in regional development, to implement them in practice and also to develop them further. The BAB contributes its results from the H2020 projects SIMRA, ROBUST and Liverur on the topics of social...
BAB 064/23: A European Forum for Revitalisation of Marginalised Mountain Areas (COST Action) - MARGISTAR
The COST project MARGISTAR was approved in May 2022 (COST Action CA21125) and the networking of partners started with the Management Committee Meeting in November 2022. The COST Action is being carried out in 26 European participating countries with the aim of supporting networking between research institutions and practice partners who intend to overcome the marginalization of mountain areas. As a COST activity, only networking activities are funded, not the research work itself. Innovative...
BAB 065/23: Pure nutrient demand and pure nutrient usage in Austrian agriculture
Agrarmarkt Austria publishes the sales volumes of the pure nutrients nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P2O5) and potash (K2O) on a quarterly basis. LBG Österreich GmbH collects the annual application quantities of pure nutrients from mineral fertilizers from the farms that voluntarily keep records for the Green Report. As part of a short study conducted by the Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics in 2016, the pure nutrient requirement of Austrian agriculture was determined on the basis of...
BAB 066/23: Empowering Rural Communities to Act for Change - RURACTIVE (Horizon Europe Projekt)
Around one third of EU citizens (two thirds in Austria) live in rural regions, but GDP per capita there is below average. The inequalities between urban and rural communities in demographic, economic and social terms are the subject of scientific projects and political programs. It is necessary to enable rural areas to compensate for disadvantages and to make greater use of potential with innovative solutions (green and digital transformation). The Horizon Europe project RURACTIVE aims to...
BAB 067/23: Circular Bioeconomy Market Uptake and Policy Support in Central Europe (BIOECO-UP)
The project "BIOECO-UP - Circular bioeconomy market uptake and policy support in Central Europe" (CE0100254) is supported by the Interreg Central Europe 2021-2027 programme with co-financing from the European Regional Development Fund. The circular economy in Central Europe is characterized by underdeveloped bio-based value chains, low consumer awareness and uneven political progress along the East-West border. BIOECO-UP deals with the further development of the circular bioeconomy in...
BAB 068/24: Social Economy for Resilience, Inclusion and Good Life in Rural Areas (SERIGO)
Social vulnerability very easily leads to isolation and disempowerment. Both individuals and certain groups of people within a society are affected. The threat of social exclusion is particularly high in times of economic restructuring, natural disasters but also - as recently - during pandemics. Vulnerability can be a consequence of social exclusion, but can also cause social exclusion itself. In rural areas, this vulnerability often manifests itself in specific ways. An interdisciplinary...
BAB 069/24: Open Source Data Pipeline & Database for HyDaMS (Hydrographisches Daten Management System)
As part of the co-operation between the federal and provincial governments required by the Water Act, a monitoring network is operated to determine the water balance in Austria. This data is collected by the federal states and transferred to the Hydrographic Data Management System (HyDaMS). The HyDaMS has so far been based on proprietary software, with which over 300,000 time series with different parameters and time references are stored in a very specialised format. As part of the INSPIRE...
BAB 070/24: Transparency of agricultural value chains
The crises of the recent past (war in Ukraine, SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, inflation rates) have once again highlighted the need for information and data on material flows within the value chains of agricultural products and foodstuffs. Comprehensive material flow representations at the level of agricultural products from primary production through the various processing stages to use are hardly available at the Austrian level. In this regard, a pilot study was carried out in 2022/23 as part of the...
BAB 071/24: DBZ – webbased dashboard for operational analysis
A constantly growing amount of data with an increased need for availability and user-friendliness also poses growing challenges for the BAB. Numerous interfaces to the population (e.g. funding processing) and the various independent institutions assigned to the BML create a very heterogeneous and widely ramified database infrastructure. Objective In order to be able to leave these data as independent services in the respective sovereignty and to be able to visualize them collectively, this...
BAB 072/24: Preparation, data management and evaluation of selected evaluation
topics of the Austrian CAP Strategic Plan 2023-2027 and the Rural Development Program 2014-2020 As in the previous funding periods, evaluation will play an important role in the implementation period of the CAP Strategic Plan (GSP) 2023-2027. The legal framework for the monitoring and evaluation system is essentially provided by the CAP Strategic Plan Regulation (EU) 2021/2115 and its Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2289 (content of the GSP) and Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2290...
BAB 073/24: Data modelling, management and consulting for the GAP Datapool
The European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) plays a central role in shaping agricultural policies that affect agriculture, the environment and rural communities. The evaluation of these policies is crucial to understand their effectiveness, sustainability and potential adjustments. The evaluation of CAP 23-27 poses new challenges for the evaluators involved. Increased expectations of the evaluation as well as larger amounts of data require targeted solutions and tools to...
BAB 074/24: D-DOK: Research documentation departments
Currently, the data for research activities and public relations activities are collected in simple lists at the research departments and the RZL and activity reports are compiled manually. There are currently no standardized publication lists or archives. Objective Development of a web-based research documentation system for departments. This application is used by the respective users to collect all relevant data that is are required for the creation of the RZLP, especially for the...
BAB 075/24: GreeNet
Grassland is a production factor for ruminant husbandry, but also a habitat for a wide range of plant and animal species and is valued for its aesthetic and cultural value. Nevertheless, ecologically important grassland areas are under threat in many parts of Europe. Nature conservation organisations and agricultural policy stakeholders are calling for conservation measures to halt or reverse this deterioration. Recent research results show that effective biodiversity conservation must take...
BAB 076/25: Development of alpine pasture farming with a special focus on land abandonment
Alpine pasture farming plays a central role in the preservation of the traditional Austrian cultural landscape and, when used sustainably, provides important ecosystem services such as nature conservation, tourism and disaster protection. Despite these functions, alpine pastures are often neglected in discussions on agriculture, land use and land abandonment. While the abandonment of arable land is increasingly considered, the topic of alpine pastures often remains underrepresented, even...
BAB 077/25: Geoid calculation
Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) such as GPS, Galileo and GLONASS enable positioning and navigation tasks to be carried out with unprecedented efficiency. Thanks to their speed, real-time capability, wide-area availability and comparatively low costs, GNSS are superior to conventional surveying methods in many areas. With the Austri-an Positioning Service (APOS), the Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying (BEV) operates a GNSS-based service that enables real-time positioning...
BAB 078/25: Climate change adaptation in Austrian arable farming
The agricultural sector plays a central role in the ongoing climate change. While agriculture continues to contribute significantly to the generation of greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollutants, it is also strongly affected by the impacts of climate change. In addition to reducing the carbon footprint, increasing adaptation measures to climate change in European food production is a dedicated goal of the Green Deal with its Farm-to-Fork Strategy (European Commission, 2020). Austrian...
BAB 079/25: Agricultural data portal - Central research portal for the publication of web maps, web services and open data of the department
The extensive data pool of the BML / BAB forms an important basis for scientific studies and projects. The growing availability of geodata as well as the extended competences and technical possibilities lead to a growing number of spatial intersections and analyses. The resulting analysis results and geodata are processed and visualised in different ways. To date, however, publication has mainly taken place in the form of static images as part of publications on websites or in print products...
BAB 080/25: The impact of agricultural and food policy on allocative efficiency with DEA and machine learning
The evaluation of policy measures requires the continuous development and improvement of methods and the development of methodological expertise. In particular, the methods of machine learning, a subgroup of artificial intelligence, have been increasingly used in recent years. In the European Union, where the European Green Deal (EGD) aims to reconcile economic processes with planetary boundaries (Pe'er et al. 2020), policy measures within the Common Agricultural and Fisheries Policy (CAP,...
BAB 081/25: The impact of Natura 2000 on farm productivity and efficiency in Austria
Prof Dr Sebastian Lakner is Head of the Chair of Agricultural Economics at the University of Rostock. Prof Lakner has many years of research experience at the interface between agricultural and environmental policy and is the author of numerous publications in this field, including together with the project leader (Koemle, Lakner, and Yu 2019; Lakner, Zinngrebe, and Koemle 2020). He works both empirically/econometrically and directly with farmers to better understand trade-offs between...
BAB 082/25: Loss of active substances in pesticides
The use of plant protection products is increasingly caught between sustainable and resource-conserving cultivation on the one hand and the protection of plants from harmful organisms on the other. Agricultural businesses are increasingly confronted with the challenge of reducing or completely dispensing with plant protection products (PPPs) due to environmental and health risks as well as regulatory changes. At the same time, plant protection products are seen as an important instrument for...
BAB 083/25: GRACE - Growing Climate Resilience in Remote rural Areas through Community Empowerment
Europe is warming faster than any other continent and the effects of climate change (CC) on the European continent, such as rising average temperatures, an increase in hot days, heavy precipitation or changes in precipitation patterns, will further increase the likelihood and intensity of climate hazards. This can lead to devastating floods, forest fires or droughts that jeopardise the population, infrastructure, natural systems and the supply of vital ecosystem services to society, as well...
BAB 084/25: Sustainable innovative business models for the rural space NEXRUR
Rural areas and agriculture are facing major economic, social and environmental challenges in relation to climate change, the loss of biodiversity and water supply (see Long-term Vision for EU Rural Areas, Rural Pact, EU Rural Action Plan). There are also socio-economic challenges such as low income, demographic changes and difficult access to services in rural areas. As a result, there is a need for improved innovative business and production models in rural areas that have a positive...
BF 138/14: Social factors influencing the success of passive flood protection
Georg Wiesinger, Theresia Oedl-Wieser, Thomas Lampalzer Passive flood protection defines spaces that are essentially dedicated to the "flowing retention" of water bodies. Other uses of these spaces, for example agricultural and forestry, are possible in a limited form. Overall, this is a sustainable, albeit land-extensive, option for protecting the (remaining) cultivated area from flood damage. Due to the extensiveness of the area, planners have to take complex actor-network relationships...