The role of behavioural factors and opportunity costs in farmers' participation in voluntary agri‐environmental schemes: A systematic review

S Schaub, J Ghazoul, R Huber, W Zhang… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Opportunities and challenges for Common Agricultural Policy reform to support the European Green Deal

I Cuadros‐Casanova, A Cristiano… - Conservation …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is the European Union's main instrument for
agricultural planning, with a new reform approved for 2023–2027. The CAP intends to align …

Farmland practices are driving bird population decline across Europe

S Rigal, V Dakos, H Alonso, A Auniņš… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Declines in European bird populations are reported for decades but the direct effect of major
anthropogenic pressures on such declines remains unquantified. Causal relationships …

[HTML][HTML] River ecological status is shaped by agricultural land use intensity across Europe

C Schürings, L Globevnik, JU Lemm, A Psomas, L Snoj… - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Agriculture impacts the ecological status of freshwaters through multiple pressures such as
diffuse pollution, water abstraction, and hydromorphological alteration, strongly impairing …

[HTML][HTML] Biodiversity indicators for result-based agri-environmental schemes–Current state and future prospects

N Elmiger, R Finger, J Ghazoul, S Schaub - Agricultural Systems, 2023 - Elsevier
CONTEXT Many agricultural policies target the conservation of biodiversity worldwide.
Result-based agri-environmental schemes can be more effective and efficient than the more …

How the Green Architecture of the 2023–2027 Common Agricultural Policy could have been greener

H Guyomard, C Détang-Dessendre, P Dupraz… - Ambio, 2023 - Springer
A new 5-year Common Agricultural Policy has been in place since January 2023. Like its
predecessors, this new policy will fail to deliver significant climatic and environmental …

Meta-analyses reveal the importance of socio-psychological factors for farmers' adoption of sustainable agricultural practices

R Swart, C Levers, JTM Davis, PH Verburg - One Earth, 2023 - cell.com
Agricultural systems support societies in various ways but also cause substantial
sustainability challenges. Sustainable agricultural practices are key to achieving …

[HTML][HTML] Sustainability assessment of economic, environmental and social impacts, feed-food competition and economic robustness of dairy and beef farming systems …

S Zira, E Röös, L Rydhmer, R Hoffmann - Sustainable Production and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The objective of this study was to evaluate the sustainability of cattle systems in South
Western Europe by combining life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) with assessment …

Cascading social-ecological benefits of biodiversity for agriculture

NF Wan, M Dainese, YQ Wang, M Loreau - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
Cultivated species diversity can provide numerous benefits to agricultural systems. Many
ecological theories have been proposed to understand the relationships between plant …

[HTML][HTML] Culture and agricultural biodiversity conservation

Y Wang, S Schaub, D Wuepper, R Finger - Food Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
Farmers' behavior towards sustainable agricultural production is key to reducing the
environmental footprint of agriculture and conserving biodiversity. We investigate the causal …