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Soil provides multiple benefits for human well-being that are largely invisible to most beneficiaries. Here, we present the results of a discrete choice experiment on the preferences of Germans for soil-based ecosystem services. In an attempt to reduce complexity for respondents, we express...

Indicator-based frameworks for assessing farms' environmental performance have become a resource for environmental knowledge regarding the impacts of agricultural practices. The present study explores whether a novel indicator-based direct payment system, which focuses on the farms'...

Environmental sustainability is a core aspect of the proposed future EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Policy changes must not compromise socioeconomic development in low-income countries, whereas the extensification of EU agriculture may also create trade opportunities abroad. We apply a...

1985 hat sich der Sachverständigenrat für Umweltfragen (SRU) in einem Sondergutachten ausführlich mit dem Umweltproblemen der Landwirtschaft befasst. Das vorliegende Gutachten geht der Fragestellung nach, wie sich die Umweltproblematik der Landwirtschaft seit 1985 entwickelt hat und welche...