EU CAP environmental actions for land management with a focus on the economic sustainability of agri-businesses

Partial agri-environmental measures and ecological management schemes should provide adequate compensation for the implementation of specific practices or ecological commitments regarding land management by business entities under EU Common Agricultural Policy. The agricultural output of such production-related enterprises is commonly achieved with reduced input consumption and lower pressure on the environment. In addition, such production of agricultural primary production enterprises may come from marginal areas that could be left without economic utilisation without financial support, including the associated potential for the provision of ecosystem services, as an additional dimension of social benefits in the framework of landscape management, and the associated potential for the development of biodiversity of the area concerned. This article aims at exploratory study of available secondary data of EU Farm Accountancy Data Network on diversity in agricultural land usage among farms in order to identify relationship between development of their economic performance and structure of land use.