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News & Events
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23-Feb-2011
Biodiversity, diffuse pollution and water eutrophication were among the issues presented at the open forum session of the Governing Body of the Co-operative Research Programme in December 2010.
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03-Feb-2011
Agricultural research faces new issues, from food security to ecological concerns to land use. Recent progress and future challenges in agricultural research were discussed at a conference organised by the OECD Co-operative Research Programme (CRP) and held in Prague in April 2009 with the co-operation of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic. This book is a collection of papers from the conference.
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24-Aug-2010
This new study looks at the design and implementation of environmental standards and regulations, taxes, payments and tradable permit schemes to address agri-environmental issues. It finds that no single policy measure will achieve all goals; a combination of complementary policy instruments is needed.
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16-Mar-2010
Farmers will have to produce more food with less water, mainly because of growing pressures from urbanisation, industrialisation and climate change. Effective water resource management is essential. This report shows the trends and outlook for water use in agriculture and recommends what countries should be doing and why.
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18-Dec-2009
The Governing Body of the Co-operative Research Programme hosts a forum on agricultural research.
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16-Jun-2008
This is the fourth volume of the OECD series Environmental Indicators for Agriculture.
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15-Apr-2008
For a selected country you have direct access to the following documents:
- Contextual information,
- Inventory: WORD document with the description of all the measures included in the inventory,
- Tables: Information on payments and other information linked with the policies included in the inventory.
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Farm support undermining sustainable use of water, says new OECD report
31-Oct-2006
Agriculture, as the main user of water in OECD countries, can also help maintain ecosystems. But government policies to support farm production often discourage the efficient use of water and aggravate pollution. The problem is identified in a new OECD publication on Water and Agriculture: Sustainability, Markets and Policies, a collection of expert papers on how to improve water management in the farming sector.
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Events
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from 20-Jun-2011 to 22-Jun-2011
Governments are devoting more awareness and effort to monitoring and evaluating their agri-environmental policies. This workshop will evaluate measures that improve agriculture’s environmental performance, including incentives for farmers to deliver public goods such as farmland biodiversity.
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