The multiple roles and functions of agriculture and forestry beyond those of supplying food and fibre, such as the provision of environmental benefits and the contribution to the socio-economic viability of rural areas, account for a growing recognition in both scientific debates and political...

Since the advent of decoupling, the process of adapting the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to a rising set of environmental priorities has involved various approaches and technical adjustments, with most Member States inclined to move more slowly than the European Commission. The debate on the...

This paper reviews the impacts and costs of pesticide and fertiliser pollution as well as the policy responses to counter these in selected OECD countries. More specifically, the paper begins with an overview of the main biodiversity and health impacts of excess pesticide and fertiliser. In...

Natural and anthropogenic conditions determine the intensity and direction of pedogenesis, as well as the nature and degree of degradation of the soil cover of the Republic of Moldova. Depending on the combination of natural and anthropogenic factors, the forms of land degradation are expand....