Ecological direct payments in Swiss Agricultural Policy

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dc.contributor.authorSwiss Governmenten
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialSwitzerlanden
dc.coverage.spatialEuropeen
dc.coverage.temporal1993en
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T19:19:16Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T19:19:16Zen
dc.date.issued2007-06-21en
dc.description.abstractThe Swiss Agricultural Policy allows environmentally friendly farming practices to be compensated according to specific criteria outlined in the Federal Ordinance on Ecological Direct Payments. A distinction is made between general and ecological direct payments. Particular services are remunerated separately through ecological direct payments. Participation in this program is optional. The aim of one of the proposed programs is to create valuable habitats for animals and plants. Among other things, the farmer receives additional payment for extensive meadow-land, reed-beds, natural field margins, permanent flowery meadows and rotated fallow fields, hedges, copses and wooded river banks and standard fruit trees (with trunk and crown). An additional program was started in 2001 aimed at raising the quality of these ecological zones and encouraging farmers to link them up.en
dc.description.notesPES-1 (Payments for Environmental Services Associate Award)en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier2314en
dc.identifier.other2314_Swiss_agricultural_policy.pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/66813en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.relation.urihttp://epp.gsu.edu/pferraro/special/DirectPaymentsSwitzerland1998.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectWildlifeen
dc.subjectBiodiversityen
dc.subjectTemperate zonesen
dc.subjectPayments for environmental servicesen
dc.subjectAgricultureen
dc.subjectGrasslandsen
dc.subjectConservation incentivesen
dc.subjectAgricultural ecosystemsen
dc.subjectEcoagricultureen
dc.subjectFarm/Enterprise Scaleen
dc.titleEcological direct payments in Swiss Agricultural Policyen
dc.typeGovernment documenten
dc.typeReporten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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