CAPAS: A Service for Improving the Assignments of Common Agriculture Policy Funds to Farmers and Land Owners

The Tragsa Group is part of the group of companies administered by the Spanish state-owned holding company Sociedad Estatal de Participaciones Industriales (SEPI). Its 37 years of experience have placed this business group at the forefront of different sectors ranging from agricultural, forestry, livestock, and rural development services, to conservation and protection of the environment in Spain. Tragsa is currently developing a business case around the implementation of a Common Agriculture Policy Assignment Service (CAPAS) – an extension of a currently active and widely used service (more than 20 million visits per year). The extension of the service in this business case is based on leveraging new cross-sectorial data sources, and targets a substantial reduction of incorrect agricultural funds assignments to farmers and land owners. This paper provides an overview of the business case, technical challenges related to the implementation of CAPAS (in areas such as data integration)...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2015
• Where: RULEML
• Authors: Mariano Navarro, Ramón Baiget, Jesús Estrada, Dumitru Roman
• Keywords: Internet Technology, RULEML 2015