A better understanding of why EU farmers choose to join agri-environmental schemes
(AESs) is vital to help policy makers design programmes that would be more attractive to …

Agricultural systems support societies in various ways but also cause substantial
sustainability challenges. Sustainable agricultural practices are key to achieving …

Understanding farmers' willingness to participate in agricultural payment‐for‐environmental‐
services (PES) programmes is an essential precondition for designing effective and efficient …

Agri-environment schemes (AES) are an important part of agricultural policy within Europe.
They seek to achieve important goals with regards to biodiversity and the protection of …

In the European Union, mitigation measures to abate diffuse pollution from agricultural land
are implemented under the direction of the EU Nitrates and Water Framework Directives. As …

During the last 50 years, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has impacted the evolution
of European agricultural landscapes by driving changes in land use and farming practices …

This paper investigates the personal and property characteristics of landowners who use EU
Rural Development agri-environmental schemes (AES), as well as their motives for …

Previous studies that have attempted to model the participation decision of farmers in agri‐
environmental schemes have used a static framework where it was not possible to examine …

Due to their diversity and voluntariness, agri-environmental measures (AEMs) are among
the Common Agricultural Policy instruments that are most difficult to assess. We provide an …

The withdrawal from rural homesteads (WRH) refers to a mechanism to encourage villagers
to withdraw from their vacant homesteads or give up their occupied homesteads (including …