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Legal instruments for an increased environmentalism in agriculture
Project
Project code: 371188101
Contract period: 01.12.2011
- 31.10.2013
Budget: 33,550 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Commissioned by the German Federal Environmental Agency, this study, which was conducted in parallel with debate about revising and greening the EU Common Agricultural Policy, is designed to show how national environmental and agricultural law could be used to a greater extent than thus far to steer development towards sustainable eco-and-climate-friendly agricultural practices. It is based on the hypothesis that the environmental requirements imposed on agriculture to date have been inadequate to ensure more sustainable use of natural resources. It investigates what environmental objectives our society has set itself and to what extent these are jeopardised by agriculture and the trend towards intensification. It then goes on to analyse existing legal instruments and indicate potential for their improvement. As required by the terms of reference, it focuses on the form and enforcement of national regulatory and planning law, particularly in the area of agriculturally relevant environmental law and environmentally relevant agricultural law, as well as looking at requirements and concepts of European law. Since sustainable agriculture can only be achieved through an effective combination of the various policy instruments, it also presents, albeit in less depth, advice and rewards for ecological achievements as two other instruments promoting and supplementing minimum regulatory and planning requirements. To limit the amount of work involved in the study, the terms of reference excluded taxation and duty instruments entirely and, accordingly, the evaluation of the available instruments, which was conducted with the help of an expert survey, is likewise confined to the identified potential for improving regulatory and planning schemes.
Section overview
Subjects
- Agroecology
- Agricultural Policy
- Climate Change
