Agriculture and forestry produce biomass which is increasingly utilised for energy generation, because its use, through substituting for fossil fuels, improves supply security and reduces greenhouse gas emissions. At present, the prevailing use for timber is to generate heat in private...

The article analyses the combined impacts of mitigation and adaptation strategies of agriculture on the economic performance in a case study region in Austria (South-Eastern Styria). With respect to mitigation the focus is on boosting the use of biomass as an energy carrier in order to...

In January 2003, the EU Commission published details of the proposed reform of the Common Agricultural Policy. Core elements of this reform are the reduction of intervention prices (for grain and milk) and the decoupling of direct payments from production. Several countries (including Austria)...

With milestone agricultural policy parameters determined in the second half of 2005, it is possible to forecast the sector's development up to 2014-15. The steep decline in the production of key agricultural goods observed in Austria since 1995 should level off since prices are expected to...

Thirty years ago, Austria introduced the milk quota regime in order to throttle production and keep domestic producer prices at a high level. The members of what was then the European Economic Community followed down the same road in 1984. The European Commission plans to discontinue the milk...