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Costs of land use for conservation in Central Europe and future agricultural policy

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  • Ulrich Hampicke
  • Dieter Roth

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In Germany and other countries of Central Europe, biodiversity in the rural countryside is best conserved by applying traditional land-use methods, such as low input sheep and cattle grazing. These are very uneconomical according to conventional accounting and can only be carried out at present by benefitting heavily from the subsidy schemes of the CAP. Trade liberalisation demands the abolition of these schemes in the long run. This would mean that land-use systems amenable to nature conservation, together with more modern cropping and cattle raising in large areas of the country, would have no chance of surviving. This could be avoided in the future if land users were to be remunerated directly for their ecological services which would appear to be fully compatible with fair trade. So trade liberalisation may even catalyse the shift from an unwise policy relying on subsidies to a scheme implying explicitly that only services rendered to society are remunerated.

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  • Ulrich Hampicke & Dieter Roth, 2000. "Costs of land use for conservation in Central Europe and future agricultural policy," International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 1(1), pages 95-108.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijarge:v:1:y:2000:i:1:p:95-108
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    1. Strappazzon, Loris & Ha, Arthur & Eigenraam, Mark & Duke, Charlotte & Stoneham, Gary, 2003. "Efficiency of alternative property right allocations when farmers produce multiple environmental goods under the condition of economies of scope," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 47(1), pages 1-27.
    2. Drechsler, Martin & Watzold, Frank, 2007. "The optimal dynamic allocation of conservation funds under financial uncertainty," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 61(2-3), pages 255-266, March.
    3. Katrakilidis, Constantinos P. & Mardas, Dimitri, 2011. "Intra-industry Trade in Agricultural Products at intra-EC level: The Impact of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Funds," Agricultural Economics Review, Greek Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 12(2).
    4. Strappazzon, Loris & Ha, Arthur & Eigenraam, Mark & Duke, Charlotte & Stoneham, Gary, 2002. "The Allocation of Property Rights when One Action Produces a Public and a Private Good," 2002 Conference (46th), February 13-15, 2002, Canberra, Australia 174045, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    5. Béla Vizvári & Zoltán Lakner & Zsolt Csizmadia & Gergely Kovács, 2011. "A stochastic programming and simulation based analysis of the structure of production on the arable land," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 190(1), pages 325-337, October.
    6. Schaich Harald & Karier Jacques & Konold Werner, 2011. "Rivers, regulation and restoration: land use history of floodplains in a peri-urban landscape in Luxembourg, 1777 - 2000," European Countryside, Sciendo, vol. 3(4), pages 241-264, January.
    7. Loris Strappazzon & Arthur Ha & Mark Eigenraam & Charlotte Duke & Gary Stoneham, 2003. "Efficiency of alternative property right allocations when farmers produce multiple environmental goods under the condition of economies of scope," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 47(1), pages 1-27, March.

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