OECD Workshop on Evaluation of Agri-Environmental Policies, Braunschweig, Germany,
20-22 June, 2011
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Governments are devoting more awareness and effort to monitoring and evaluating their agri-environmental policies. They aim to improve their performance through establishing evidence-based policy-making, management and accountability, which will help to improve the design and implementation of policies.
This workshop will assist policy makers in their efforts to improve understanding of the environmental effectiveness and economic efficiency of policies. It will evaluate measures that improve agriculture’s environmental performance, including incentives for farmers to deliver public goods such as farmland biodiversity.
In particular, the workshop will consider two questions:
- Have agri-environmental and agricultural (cross compliance) policies and environmental regulations succeeded in meeting environmental objectives for agriculture in OECD countries (and selected non-OECD countries)?
- What is the role for governments in encouraging farmers to deliver environmental public goods?
>> More on background and objectives of this workshop
CONTACT: For any questions, comments or suggestions regarding the Workshop, please contact Dimitris Diakosavvas Dimitris.Diakosavvas@oecd.org
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Final Agenda (PDF)
Abstracts (PDF)
Workshop Papers and Powerpoint Presentations
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Session 1: SETTING THE SCENE: KEY POLICY ISSUES
- Welcome by Prof. Folkhard ISERMEYER
President of the Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute.
- Overview of Workshop
Dimitris DIAKOSAVVAS
Environmental Policies Division, OECD.
Powerpoint
- Keynote Address
Evaluating Policies for Delivering Agri-Environmental Public Goods
Alison BURRELL
Paper Powerpoint
Discussants:
- Leo MAIER
Head of Unit, Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development, Unit Evaluation of Measures Applicable to Agriculture, European Commission, DG AGRI, Brussels.
Paper Powerpoint
- Marca WEINBERG
Associate Director of the Resource and Rural Economics Division.
ERS, US Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC, USA.
Powerpoint
Session 2: EVALUATION OF AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMMES: SOME ISSUES
- Design and Implementation of Agri-environmental Policy Mechanisms – Are Guidelines Feasible?Clunie KEENLEYSIDE, Ben ALLEN, Kaley HART and David BALDOCK
Institute of European Environmental Policy, London
Paper Powerpoint
- Evidence Based Agri-environmental Policies - Can Institutionalised Evaluation Procedures Provide Useful Input? The Swedish Experience
Sören HÖJGARD and Ewa RABINOWICZ
Department of Economics, Swedish University for Agricultural Sciences and Agri-Food Economics Centre, Uppsala, Sweden.
Paper Powerpoint
- Εvaluating US Agri-environmental Payment Programmes: Some Thoughts on Objectives, Payments and Additionality.
Roger CLAASSEN
Agricultural economist in the Resource, Environmental, and Science Policy Branch,
ERS, US Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC, USA.
Powerpoint
Discussant:
- Ian HODGE
Professor, Head of Department, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, UK.
Paper
Session 3a: EVALUATION OF AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL PAYMENTS
- Cost-effective Incentives for Farmers to Deliver Public Goods
Hans BRAND
Policy Co-ordinator, Department for the Common Agricultural Policy, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation, The Hague.
Powerpoint
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Evaluation of Agri-environmental Measures in Switzerland – Results and Impacts of Agricultural Policy Reform
Ruth BADERTSCHER
Federal Office for Agriculture, Planning and Evaluation Directorate, Ecology Unit, Bern, Switzerland.
Paper Powerpoint
- Environmental Effects of Organic Farming – State of the Art and Policy Implications
Jürn SANDERS
Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute (vTI), Germany
Powerpoint
- Landscape cohesion and the conservation potential of landscapes for biodiversity: evaluating agri-environment schemes using a spatially explicit agent-based modelling approach
Marleen SCHOUTEN1, Nico POLMAN2, Eugène WESTERHOF2 and Paul OPDAM3Marleen SCHOUTEN
1. Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
2. Agricultural Economics Research Institute (LEI), The Hague, The Netherlands.
3. Land Use Planning Group, Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
Paper Powerpoint
Discussant:
- Janet DWYER
Professor of Rural Policy and Co-Director of Countryside and Community Research Institute, United Kingdom
Paper Powerpoint
Session 3b: EVALUATION OF AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL PAYMENTS
Session 4: EVALUATION OF AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL PAYMENTS – EU RURAL DEVELOPMENT PLANS 2007-13
- Evaluation of Agri-environmental Measures in Flanders, Belgium
Michael Van ZEEBROECK and Dirk Van GIJSEGHEM,
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Brussels, Belgium
Paper Powerpoint
- Evaluating Axis 2 of the Estonian Rural Development Programme II, 2007-13 - improving the environment and the countryside
Ramon REIMETS
Chief specialist, Ministry of Agriculture, Agri-Environment Bureau.
Paper Powerpoint
- The Evaluation of the Austrian Agri-environmental Programme
Anja PUCHTA
Bundesministerium für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft, Vienna.
Paper Powerpoint
- Evaluation of Agri-environmental Measure in the Czech Republic: Evolving Concept
Jaroslav, PRAZAN
Head of Agro-environmental Policy, Institute of Agricultural Economics and Information, Prague.
Paper Powerpoint
Discussant:
- Kaley HART,
Senior Fellow and Head of Agriculture and Land Management Programme, Institute of European Environmental Policy.
Powerpoint
Session 5: EVALUATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS, ENVIRONMENTAL TAXES AND TRADEABLE PERMITS
Session 6: EVALUATION OF POLICY MIXES AND OTHER APPROACHES
- Evaluation of Cross Compliance in England
Alastair JOHNSON
Head of Agri-Environment Theme Group, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), England.
Paper Powerpoint
- Australia’s Approach to Improve Environmental Performance on Farm
Kimberly GREEN
Director Sustainable Agriculture Policy, Land and Coasts Division, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Canberra, Australia.
Powerpoint wind-erosion land-management groundcover
- A Policy Evaluation of Environmental-Friendly Direct Payment Programs in Korea
Chang-Gil KIM and James BANFILL
Senior Fellow, Korea Rural Economic Institute, Seoul, Korea.
Paper Powerpoint
- Promoting Collective Actions in Implementing Agri-environmental Policies: A Conceptual Discussion
Mikitaro SHOBAYASHI
Professor, Gakushuin Women’s College, Tokyo.
Powerpoint
Discussant:
- Roger CLAASSEN
Agricultural economist in the Resource, Environmental, and Science Policy Branch, ERS, US Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC, USA.
Paper Powerpoint
Session 7: ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION – WHERE WE GO FROM HERE?
- Chair: Frode LYSSANDTRE
Chair, OECD Joint Working Party on Agriculture and the Environment
- Raporteur: Alison BURRELL
Powerpoint
- Panellists
Ewa RABINOWICZ
Bernhard OSTERBURG
Mikitaro SHOBAYASHI
Marca WEINBERG
- Concluding Comments from the OECD Secretariat
Dale ANDREW,
Environmental Policies Division, OECD
Closure of the Workshop
By Prof. Dr. Peter WEINGARTEN
Workshop List of Participants
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List of Participants (PDF)
Information on Hotels and Transport (PDF)
Hotel reservation form (PDF)
Organisation of the Workshop (PDF)
Please register until May 15 for Dinner and field trip
Website Links and Related Information
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Relevant OECD Publications
- Evaluating agri-environmental policies
- Environmental cross compliance in agriculture
- Agri-environmental indicators : www.oecd.org/agriculture/env/indicators
- Methods to monitor and evaluate the impacts of agricultural policies on rural development
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