Reacting to the intensified contradictions of the capitalist food system, many agrarian activists seek to revitalize family labor farms, to make agriculture ecologically sustainable, to renew the social and economic life of rural communities, and to create an unalienated labor process. While the...

Multifunctionality is a multifaceted concept and the economic literature that treats the concept has mushroomed over the last couple of years. This paper surveys that literature. With respect to quantification of multifunctional production, it is concluded that jointness in production is at the...

The agricultural land provision of private and public goods is studied by inter-disciplinary approaches on the supply from a resource economics perspective and on efficient policy measures from a welfare economic perspective. The socially optimal production of landscape public goods is derived...

The willingness to pay (WTP) for different types of elements and other environmental qualities of the agricultural landscape were investigated by a choice experiment study. To get value measures of a set of attributes as policy relevant as possible, the WTP for 28 levels of 12 attributes was...

This paper presents a methodology for developing state indicators, reflecting the provision of environmental public goods from agricultural landscapes. The methodology involves a structured use of meta-criteria and criteria for developing indicator variables and indicators, along with a coherent...

I denna rapport beskrivs och jämförs miljöstöden till permanenta gräsmarker i Bayern, Danmark, England, Polen och Sverige. Det finns avgörande skillnader mellan länderna i hur miljöstöden till de per¬manenta gräsmarkerna är utformade. Skillnaderna gäller dels hur stora...