The recent reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union extend in a significant way the "decoupling" process started some ten years earlier. By adopting the Single Farm Payment (SFP) scheme only limited support for agriculture is tied to current production decisions....

Overview / Christophe Bellmann and Jonathan Hepburn -- The historical context of the green box / Néstor Stancanelli -- Doha Round negotiations on the green box and beyond / Jonathan Hepburn and Christophe Bellmann -- The reform of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy / Alan Swinbank -- Farm...

Payments for ecosystem services (PES) and agri-environmental schemes (AES) are often introduced with the goal to counteract overexploitation of natural habitats and biodiversity loss in forests and agricultural landscapes. Their ecological effectiveness and cost-effectiveness have been, however,...