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Guidelines for Cost-effective Agri-environmental Policy Measures

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.

Sustainable Management of Water Resources in Agriculture

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.

Environmental performance of agriculture in OECD countries since 1990

16-Jun-2008

This is the fourth volume of the OECD series Environmental Indicators  for Agriculture.

Inventory of policy measures addressing environmental issues in agriculture

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.

Coherence of agricultural and rural development policies

19-Jun-2006

At a time when agriculture is no longer the dominant sector in rural economies in OECD countries, this study examines the advantages of developing coherence between agricultural and rural development policies.

Agriculture, trade and the environment: the arable crop sector

15-Sep-2005

Agricultural support policies affect the pattern and structure of agricultural production, with consequences for the environment. But what are these impacts and how might they be affected by further agricultural policy reform and trade ...

Evaluating agri-environmental policies: design, practice and results

15-Sep-2005

This workshop proceedings examines evaluation of agri-environmental policies to see how effective policies have been and what policy makers have learned.

Agriculture and the environment: lessons learned from a decade of OECD work

15-Nov-2004

This report provides a concise summary of the main lessons learned from a decade (1993-2003) of work on agriculture and environmental policy issues in the OECD, and identifies the main emerging issues and challenges in order to assist policy makers...

Agriculture, trade and the environment: the dairy sector

11-Oct-2004

Agricultural policies affect agricultural production with consequences for the environment. What are the impacts and how might they be affected by further agricultural policy reform? What are governments doing to improve the environmental ...

Biomass and agriculture: sustainability, markets and policies - website

06-Sep-2004

Proceedings from an OECD workshop, Vienna, Austria, 10-13 June, 2003. The workshop papers analyse the socio-economic, environmental and policy impacts of biomass from agriculture, focusing on bioenergy/materials.


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