Market Creation: Organic Agriculture in The Netherlands

Organic agriculture showed a strong growth in recent years (annual growth up to 25%) and it is expected that its economic significance will increase sharply. There is a steady increase in the number of farms that are switching to organic agricu...

Information and Consumer Decision-Making for Sustainable Consumption: Report of an OECD Workshop

This report analyses the process of consumer decision-making and identifies some effective mechanisms to providing information able to generate positive changes in consumer behaviour towards sustainable consumption.

Informal Expert Meeting on Development and Climate Change: Linkages with Natural Resources Management, Paris, 13-14 March 2002

This informal expert meeting, held 13-14 March in Paris, combined experts from both the climate policy (largely adaptation experts) and the development policy communities. Participants from developing and developed countries, and from relevant i...

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Pesticide Risk Reduction

This page tells about the OECD Pesticide Risk Reduction project.

Education and Learning for Sustainable Consumption

This is the final report of the joint CERI/Environment Directorate Workshop on Education and Learning for Sustainable Consumption, held on 14-15 September 1998 in Paris.

Case Studies for the Handbook of Biodiversity Valuation: A Guide for Policy Makers

These 11 country case studies are background information for the Handbook of Biodiversity Valuation.

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Handbook of Biodiversity Valuation: A Guide for Policy Makers

All societies depend on biodiversity and biological resources, and policy-makers are increasingly aware that development pressures are today generating unprecedented rates of biodiversity loss. The fact that biodiversity issues often receive low ...

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Household Toxic Products

This paper discusses some of the lessons learned by one government agency, the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Institute, in its work with local coalitions to reduce the use and presence of toxic chemicals in their communities.

Special Review Meeting on the Revised Guiding Principles 10-12 June, 2002 Brussels

Transition To Full-Cost Pricing Of Irrigation Water For Agriculture In OECD Countries

The analysis of water pricing policies in the irrigation sector is an essential element for judging resource and agricultural policies, identifying policy gaps and inconsistencies and suggesting guidelines to design legal and planning proposals. ...