Agri-environment

Critchley CNR, Allen D S, Fowbert J A, Mole A C and Gundrey A L (2004). Habitat establishment on arable land assessment of an agri-environment scheme in England, UK . Biological Conservation, 119, 429 142. 

Directorate of Plant Protection, Soil Conservation and Agri-environment Hungary... 

Interviews with experts that were most closely involved in the conventional sector revealed that the dynamics of the EU agri-environment framework was a central talking point. At the time of the interviews there was little information available on the Common Agricultural Policy reforms that were eventually formalized in spring 2004, and experts expressed the sense of insecurity this created for producers. None of the experts appeared at the time to have a clear impression of the direction EU agri-policy would take. 

How do EU agri-environment policies need to be framed in order for productive farmland to be converted in addition to marginal land ... 

Support initiatives under the 1992 agri-environment programme... 

Table 1. Uptake, public expenditure and average payments for organic farming schemes under EC Reg. 2078/92 compared to all agri-environment options... 

Other restrictions in the eligibility conditions were related to the principle of avoiding double payments for the achievement of the same objective under different agri-environment and mainstream measures, resulting in considerable variation between the schemes. 

In 1985 the first funded Environmentally Sensitive Area (ESA) was started in England and this was the beginning of a number of funded farm conservation schemes. Since then there have been various CAP-supported agri-environmental schemes introduced. In England about two-thirds of the farmed land is covered by one of the agri-environment schemes. The current CAP single payment scheme also has a number of environmental management requirements - crosscompliance. 

Afify AE-MMR, Mohamed MA, El-Gammal HA, Attallah FR. Multiresidue method of analysis for determination of 150 pesticides in grapes using quick and easy method (QuEChERS) and LC-MS/MS determination. J Food Agri Environ 2010 8 602-6. 

Herzog F (2005) Agri-environment schemes as landscape experiments. Agric Ecosyst Environ 108(3) 175-177. doi 10.1016/j.agee.2005.02.001... 

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