Evaluation of Agri-environmental Policies
Selected Methodological Issues and Case Studies
Introduction
The thirteen chapters in this volume are a selection of the contributions presented at the OECD Workshop on “Evaluation of Agri-Environmental Policies” hosted by the Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute, Braunschweig, Germany on 20-22 June 2011. During the Workshop, a total of twenty-four presentations as well as formal contributions from seven discussants were programmed. They covered a broad range of conceptual and practical issues related to evaluating policy measures for stimulating improvements in the environmental performance of agriculture. The focus was specifically on those policy instruments that target farming practices with the objective of enhancing agriculture’s provision of public goods or raising environmental performance standards above the mandatory level specified by legislation.