Guidelines for Cost-effective Agri-environmental Policy Measures / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Contributor:

SourceOECD (Online service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture and Food.

Ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (118 pages)

Place of Publication:

Paris : OECD Publishing, 2010.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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 of policy instruments and the design of specific instruments, with the aim of identifying those that are most cost-effective in very different situations across OECD countries. Key conclusions from the study are that: there is no unique instrument that promises to achieve all agri-environmental policy goals; the cost effectiveness of payments systems could be improved by using performance-based measures; and policy mixes need to combine policy instruments that complement and not conflict with each other.

Contents:

Tailoring environmental standards, environmental taxes and tradeable permits

Policy design parameters: an overview

Objectives of agri-environmental policy instruments and criteria for policy evaluation

Introduction

Executive Summary

Foreword

Annex B

Annex A

Annex C

Agri-environmental policies in OECD countries

Bibliography

Policy-mixes for the agri-environment

Design issues for agri-environmental payment programmes

Ex-ante and ex-post evaluation of agri-environmental policies

Summary and good policy practices.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed May 1, 2017).

ISBN:

9789264086845

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