D7.1 - Use Case planning and set of involved stakeholders
Creators: name: Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias de Andalucía
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: AGRICORE H2020

description: This document presents the planning for the execution of the three use cases considered in the AGRICORE project and the list of relevant stakeholders involved in each use case. Each use case addresses different financial policy measures to support the agricultural sector in a different European Member State (Spain, Poland and Greece). This deliverable is part of ‘WP7 - Use Case Demonstrations’, which is devoted to the design, preparation, execution and analysis of three use cases, including the execution of any Participatory Research (PR) activity that might be necessary for their development. WP7 is closely related to ‘WP1 – Data Sources and Participatory Research’, and thus part of the content of 'D1.8 - Use case participatory research actions' is referred to or included in this deliverable.

AGRICORE is a research project funded by the European Commission as a result of the RUR-04-2018 call, part of the H2020 programme. AGRICORE proposes an innovative way to apply agent-based modelling to improve the capacity of policymakers to evaluate the impact of agricultural-related measurements under and outside the framework of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The resulting AGRICORE tool will be tested in three use cases, each of them having a special focus on a specific type of impact assessment (IA): environmental IA, ecosystem services IA and socio-economic IA.

The first section introduces the deliverable in the whole project and puts in emphasis the importance of well-defined planning and schedule to execute the use cases successfully. This includes the need to establish collaboration agreements with involved stakeholders and the settling of a monitoring plan in order to avoid possible issues and delays. Furthermore, the content of D1.8 on which this deliverable is based is outlined: analysis of the assessed agricultural policy measures and their impact, identification of the agent’s attributes and detection of information gaps, and definition of the Participatory Research activities.

Section 2 describes the context of the agricultural sector related to the assessed measures in each use case, i.e., M11 in the Andalusian region, M10.1 in Poland and M6.1 in Greece. These descriptions, supported by some data and statistics, are based on the analysis of the measures made in D1.8. Moreover, the requirements for the beneficiaries of the measures and the subsidy conditions are outlined in this section.

As mentioned above, the pillars of this deliverable are planning and schedule for the execution of the use cases, identifying the involved stakeholders in each use case and the definition of a risk assessment and mitigation strategy as part of the monitoring plan. These elements show both aspects that are generic, as three use cases share deadlines and milestones and have to be coordinated, and features that are specific to each of them. That's why the content is divided into a section with common aspects and another section for specific aspects, with individual subsections in order to consider the particularities of each UC.

The common part is addressed in Section 3, including i) a Gantt chart that illustrates the common planning of the use cases; ii) the description of the groups into which the stakeholders in each use case are classified; iii) the mitigation plan, together with a common risk assessment and mitigation strategy for the three use cases.

Section 4 covers the specific aspects of the aforementioned points on a use case by use case basis. Firstly, the information gaps and their filling are reviewed, explaining the results of finalised tasks, such as the adaptation of the Participatory Research execution and the conduction of the pilot survey. Secondly, a table with the local stakeholders and their collaborations is presented. Finally, the individual risk assessment and mitigation actions for each use case are listed in a table, highlighting the detected risks and ongoing mitigation actions in each use case.

Lastly, the Conclusions section summarises the outputs of this deliverable, underlining their importance to reach a precise organisation and coordination of the resources. Furthermore, it is also emphasised the necessity of correct execution of the use cases to develop the AGRICORE tool and carry out the ex-post and ex-ante analysis of the use cases.