In the light of globalisation, farmers are forced to exploit all reserves for economic reasons.
Economic pressures leave little room for targets other than optimised production. Therefore …

Over the last few decades, land use in Europe has increasingly become polarised:
agricultural land in marginal areas has been abandoned, while the use of more fertile and …

Finding a new balance between societal demands for high environmental quality and the
pressures resulting from competition in a world market economy has become a key issue in …

The physical environment, including the landscape, has traditionally been considered
important for the development of agriculture and agricultural policy. The challenge has been …

Agriculture in the Netherlands is a critical industry, in terms of both its share of available land
and its importance to the Dutch economy. Cultural-technical improvements and …

This paper presents an analysis of the attitudes of farmers towards a policy approach that
combines the instrument of set-aside of farmland with agri-environmental measures under …

The interface between environment, agriculture and society needs more attention to improve
nature conservation in rural landscapes. The present paper attempts to identify the …

Until now the main instrument to counteract the loss of biodiversity and landscape quality in
the European countryside has been agri‐environment schemes (AES), which offer short …

Overall, the yield, as well as nutrient retention capacities, of agroecosystems and
biodiversity in agricultural landscapes, that developed over thousands of years, has …