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BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY
卷 6, 期 2, 页码 99-106出版社
URBAN & FISCHER VERLAG
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2005.01.001
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land use; low input farming; farming systems; grasslands; agriculture; economics; intensification
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This article, analyses the mechanisms behind changes in agricultural land use. Intensification of land use on the one hand, and abandonment on the other have had important consequences for landscape and biodiversity. The basic mechanism behind it is a change, in the relative prices of inputs and output. In this sense the general economic developments have been determining the changes in agricultural land use. In Western Europe, the rapid increase in the opportunity costs of tabour was the main factor behind mechanisation and intensification of agriculture. Also, the Common Agricultural Policy of the EU has stimulated intensification. Recent policy developments have cut down important incentives for further intensification. This, however, does not solve the problem of the decline of low input agricultural systems in Europe. The only way to maintain them is by specific nature-enhancing policies. (c) 2005 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
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