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 …

argument supposes that agriculture is environmentally benign or even ameliorative. A more fearsome fallacy may not exist …. Agriculture is one of the most resource-depleting economic activities and deserves to be treated accordingly. The microecological … variation on agroecological reasoning favors improving agriculture's environmental performance by reducing farm sizes and …

In the European Union (EU) periurban agriculture is under the same agri-environmental policy regime designed for … general agriculture. We argue that the specific needs of periurban agriculture may justify ad hoc agri-environmental policy … agriculture measures in this area. The mismatch between the low uptake rate and the high social benefits generated by the four …