EASY: Evaluating current European agri-environment schemes to quantify and improve nature conservation efforts in agricultural landscapes

• Research unit: EU RFP
• Project number: 01.0524-1

Key words (English)

Agriculture; Economic Aspects; Environmental Protection; Life Sciences; Resources of the Sea; Fisheries

Alternative project number (English)

EU project number: QLK5-CT-2002-01495

Research programs (English)

EU-programme: 5. Frame Research Programme - 1.1.5 Sustainable agriculture, fisheries and forestry

Short description (English)

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Abstract (English)

Agri-environment schemes play an increasingly important role in CAP to support biodiversity and environment in agricultural landscapes. They have been implemented since 1992. Still, there is no conclusive evidence that these schemes actually do contribute to the conservation of particularly biodiversity. The primary objective of this project is to evaluate the (cost-) effectiveness of European agri-environment schemes in protecting biodiversity and to determine the primary processes that determine their effectiveness. This project furthermore aims to determine how the CAP may be introduced in candidate EU-members without un acceptable loss of biodiversity. It will provide simple guidelines how researchers, governmental authorities or SME's may efficiently evaluate agri-environmental measures.

References in databases (English)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
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Swiss Project-Number: 01.0524-1