Consejería de Agricultura, Pesca y Desarrollo. Rural

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1 Bruselas, 15 de sep 2015

2 Region of Andalucía (Spain) Surface: km 2 Population: 8,39 Mill. inhabitants Transition region ( ) First agricultural region in Spain Agricultural Surface: km 2 Forestry : km 2 Agrifood complex: 8 % of GDP 10 % of Employment Including Agro-industries Added Employed Value Agriculture M Agro-Industry M TOTAL M

3 A very diverse Agriculture Dehesa pastureland Open fields Olive trees Bétic Mountains Guadalquivir river sides Litoral

4 Identified needs, by areas Water quality Good Practices and Climate Change Biodiversity Environment Soil preservation Sustainable use of the Mediterranean Forest Management of resources and waste

5 Detected needs, by topics Comercialization Competitivity Diferentiated quality Modernization Holdings Industries Human Capital, Young and Women Improvement of life quality and economic diversification Training and capacity building Risk management Access to credit Quality of life Infraestructures Better coordination Research and Innovation Sistem Local Development Access to ICTs Encourage innovative minsets

6 Strategy EC s recommendations for Spain (Position Paper): Raise of the employment rate and work productivity, together with the improvement of the education, training and social inclusion policies with special attention to young people and most vulnerable groups. Adaptation of the productive system towards higher added value activities through the improvement of SMEs competitivity. Promotion of a favourable business environment for innovation and strengthening of the Research and Innovation System More efficient use of natural resources Partnership Agreement Spain - EU Development National Framework FEADER Spain: M 1 National RDP 238 M 17 Regional RDP M

7 A strong RDP, adapted to the needs In coherence with Europe Strategy 2020: Andalucia Economic Plan Main Objective : Job creation 17 Measures, targeted specially to: promote agriculture and agroindustry s competitivity restore, preserve and improve ecosystems related to agriculture and y silviculture Andalucía RDP FEADER M NATIONAL+ REGIONAL BUDGET 540 M TOTAL PUBLIC MONEY M

8 Main aspects of Andalucia RDP Public Investment Olive sector Subprogram 304 M Integrated Territorial Investment - Cádiz 121.7M Priorisation in RDP s support is given to: Young Farmers and Women, encouraging genrational replacement. Producer s groups members, being size an strategic element for food chain balance. Innovation, key for competitivity improvement. Organic Farming, a differentiation and competitivity element, outstanding for Andalucia. Dehesa pasturelands support, included in several measures. Energy efficiency investments, specially in irrigation systems. Natura 2000 support included y Organic Farming and Agri-environmentclimate measures.

9 Priority to investments and sustainability Investments in physical assets gathers 28% of total budget. Followed by Forestry development (17%) and Agri-environment-climate (13%). Public Investment in Millions Euro Investments in physical assets Investments in forestry development (*) Agri-environment- climate LEADER Organic farming Farm and business development (+initial establishment of Basic services and village renewal in rural areas Aid for areas with specific constraints Technical assistance Knowledge transfer and Training Advisory services Cooperation Participation of farmers in quality schemes Agroforestry and climatic services for forest conservation Setting up of Producers Groups Animal welfare Restoring agricultural production damaged by natural disasters Early retirement from farming (**) 328,0 258,0 201,6 138,5 73,3 71,8 67,9 59,8 55,9 29,3 20,3 11,1 9,3 9,0 8,3 5,1 413,9 689,1 (*) Includes 51.9 M of former years commintments for afforestation of agriculture land (**) Measure not available in the new framework, only previous years commitments

10 Outstanding interventions, by EU RD priority Priority 1: Innovation and knowledge transfer. Almost 145 M (5,91% of total). 250 Operational Groups and places in Trainings 258 M for LEADER, which will create more than jobs Asist. Téc. 3% 130 M for setting up 2500 Young Farmers 182 M for modernization of holdings and 101 M for rural paths, holdings involved 112 M for irrigation systems improvement, more than hectares involved 219 M for resilience improvement and environmental value of Forestries P5 14% P6 14% P4 38% P2 21% P3 10% 203 M for the modernization of more than 900 food industries 20 M fo the participation of more than farmers in quality schemes r 328 M for agri-environment aids, hectares involved. 166 M for Prevention and restoration of damage to forests 201 M for Organic Farming, more than hectares involved.

11 Oportunities within RDP: II Pilar 1. Investment and development for transition regions. 2. Agri-food sector as an employment niche. 3. New measures and higher advance payments for investments that will boost and improve the Program execution. 4. Facilities for the setting up of young people in the agricultural activity. 5. Real incentives to development through Innovation operational groups. 6. Avility to movilize financial resources higher that public budget.

12 Proposals for the future of the CAP 1. Targeted mechanisms of support and income stabilisation elements. 2. Better inegration of regions in the decision taking process, specially in territory policy design and in agricultural sectors. 3. More efficient and flexible market mechanisms.