Emerging Policies on Externalities from Agriculture: An Analysis for the European Union
Emerging Policies on Externalities from Agriculture: An Analysis for the European Union
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新兴农业外部性政策:欧盟分析
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1999
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D. Oglethorpe
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N. Hanley;D. Oglethorpe
In this paper, we define agri-environmental policy (AEP) as any policy implemented by farm agencies or ministries for which funding comes out of agricultural support budgets and that is concerned mainly with encouraging the production of environmental goods or reducing the supply of environmental bads. In Britain, as in the EU (European Union) more widely, the late 1980s and 1990s have seen reform of farm support policy under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) as a gradual shift away from output-related support and toward area-based payments and payments for the supply of environmental goods (Billing). Area support payments now constitute the largest single component of CAP spending in the United Kingdom. Under the most recent CAP reform proposals, Agenda 2000, further incremental change is proposed, with cuts in price support for arable crops, beef, and sheep meat, and increasing use of area-based support. Agenda 2000 also promises a "prominent role" for environmental measures under