Guidelines for Cost-effective Agri-environmental Policy Measures [electronic resource].
Publishing, OECD.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development StaffCorporate Author
Paris : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,
2010.
Improving the environmental performance of agriculture is a high priority in OECD and many non-OECD countries. This will be of increasing concern in the future given the pressure to feed a growing world population with scarce land and water resources. Policy has an important role to play where markets for many of the environmental outcomes from agriculture are absent or poorly functioning.   . This study focuses on the design and implementation of environmental standards and regulations, taxes, payments and tradable permit schemes to address agri-environmental issues. It deals with the choice 
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Foreword; Table of Contents; Executive Summary; Introduction; Objectives of agri-environmental policy instruments and criteria for policy evaluation; Policy design parameters: an overview; Tailoring environmental standards, environmental taxes and tradeable permits; Design issues for agri-environmental payment programmes; Policy-mixes for the agri-environment: overview of design parameters; Agri-environmental policies in OECD countries; Ex-ante and ex-post evaluation of agri-environmental policies; Summary and good policy practices
Annex A. Compliance bases for alternative agri-environmental policy instrumentsAnnex B. Cross-compliance in the European Union; Annex C. Standards versus taxes; Bibliography
Improving the environmental performance of agriculture is a high priority in OECD and many non-OECD countries. This will be of increasing concern in the future given the pressure to feed a growing world population with scarce land and water resources. Policy has an important role to play where markets for many of the environmental outcomes from agriculture are absent or poorly functioning.   . This study focuses on the design and implementation of environmental standards and regulations, taxes, payments and tradable permit schemes to address agri-environmental issues. It deals with the choice 
Agriculture -- Environmental aspects -- Government policy.
Agriculture and state -- Economic aspects.
Agriculture and state -- Environmental aspects.
Agriculture and state -- OECD countries.