Agri‐environmental schemes (AESs) are increasingly implemented to promote the adoption
of environmentally friendly practices by farmers. We use a systematic review to explore the …

Agricultural intensification and landscape homogenisation are major drivers of biodiversity
loss in European agricultural landscapes. Improvements require changes in farming …

Agricultural expansion and intensification have boosted global food production but have
come at the cost of environmental degradation and biodiversity loss. Biodiversity-friendly …

Agri-environmental schemes (AES) belong to the main instruments of the European Union's
Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to foster sustainable farming practices that contribute to …

Agriculture exerts a strong pressure on the environment and can both preserve biodiversity,
diversify and improve landscape quality, and cause declines in farmland biodiversity. In …

Farmers are often reluctant to adopt sustainable agricultural practices despite a thorough
formal regulatory framework combating unsustainable behaviour. To date, the literature in …

Agricultural land systems, covering about 40 percent of the world's ice-free terrestrial
surface, are the single largest contributor to biodiversity loss worldwide (Chapin et al., 2000; …

Drivers for biodiversity loss are largely regulated by policies in non-environmental sectors.
The limited mainstreaming of biodiversity into respective policies remains yet to be …

Agri-environmental climate measures (AECM) are considered a promising tool to achieve
environmental policy goals. Not only farmers but also policy administrators and …

Current management contracts under agri-environmental schemes (AES) are often action-
based. This means that farmers are reimbursed for the costs incurred when implementing …