Evolution of Agri-Environmental Schemes Worldwide. Comparing the Agricultural Policy of the EU, the US and the People’s Republic of China

A systematic review of the evaluation of agricultural policies: Using prisma

“…According to Ref. [ 5 ], the analysis of environmental policy in agriculture yields such diverse results that it is impossible to perform an effective evaluation; for this reason, a Pareto inefficiency criterion is proposed as a tool to evaluate agri-environmental public policies For this reason, it is interesting to analyze a combination of more robust methodologies that have qualitative and quantitative tools that account for the complexity in decision-making when an agricultural policy is implemented. Although public policies have improved in this century, the efforts are insufficient and the agricultural sector has not yet been developed [ 6 ].…”

Contract noncompliance in agricultural conservation programs: Panel evidence from Louisiana, USA

“…The favorable changes in (non)market factors make the opportunity cost of complying with contractual obligations very high. In other words, the interplay of both financial and non-financial motives (e.g., preferences and risk aversion) affects contractual obligations or compliance (Adusumilli et al, 2020;Pathak et al, 2021;Dean et al, 2023). Thus, noncompliance could be triggered as a part of adaptive management to respond to unexpected circumstances beyond the participant's control or due to unrevealed private benefits to farmers unbeknown to NRCS (Wallander et al, 2019).…”

“…Third, contract participation, implementation, and continuation are voluntary with EQIP and CSP programs. However, a subtle difference to note between these two programs is that EQIP focuses on conservation practice initiation, while CSP is more about the enhancement of existing conservation practice(s) (Czyżewski & Kryszak, 2022). Lastly, terminations and cancellations occur for the whole contract in its entirety and do not apply to specific management practice(s).…”