"Flowering Meadows" is the name of a new style of agri-environmental contract which has been included into the French Rural Development Plan 2007-2013. This contract is unusual in all respects. Management prescriptions are given up: the farmer is free to tend his meadow as he wants as long as he...

In an effort to reconfigure the system for the delivery of agricultural services, the Regional Government of Sardinia in Italy decided, in 2006, to suppress five public entities, and to establish three regional agencies in their place. Based on interviews conducted with managers and staff within...

In an effort to reconfigure the system of delivery of agriculture services, the Regional Government of Sardinia in Italy decided, in 2006, to suppress five public entities and to establish, in their place, three regional agencies. Based on interviews conducted with managers and staff of these...