Impact of the information management of EU´s Common Agricultural Policy on energy efficiency in agriculture
Year: 2025
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Global agricultural production faces several challenges as it strives to meet demand, adapt to a changing climate, and reduce environmental and climate impacts.In addition, agricultural production should use natural resources and energy supplies sustainably.Energy efficiency plays an important role in addressing the environmental and energy challenges of agriculture.The EU´s Common Agricultural Policy´s National Strategy Plan provides information guidance to promote environmentally and climate-smart agricultural activities, including farms energy management.The aim of this Master´s thesis is to study effectiveness of information management in agricultural activities.The work examines how the advice of the energy plan has promoted changes in the operating methods of farms, the promotion of energy efficiency and the implementation of renewable energy and considers the effectiveness of the advice more broadly in reducing environmental and climate load.The work brings together the experiences of farms and advisors and provides suggestions for the development of the energy plan and its advice.The study was carried out as a survey, which was targeted at advisors of energy plan in Finland and the farms
Author: Jalava, Viivi
Language: Finnish
Field: Energy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7215203482