This paper is concerned with agri-environmental policy in Germany and focuses in particular on soil and water conservation. At first it discusses to what extent agriculture contributes to erosion and the pollution of surface waters and groundwater with nutrients and pesticides. Whereas erosion...

Die Agrarpolitik wurde in den letzten Jahrzehnten grundlegend reformiert: von einer einkommensorientierten und marktverzerrenden Agrarpreispolitik hin zu einer wettbewerbsorientierten Politik mit direkten, flächengebundenen Einkommenstransfers an Landwirte sowie freiwilligen agrarstrukturellen,...

Rural areas in Central and Eastern Europe are very often associated with a backwardness in terms of income and employment opportunities, a high dependency on agriculture, the outmigration of young, skilled people, a low population density and an insufficient infrastructure. In this paper 3...