Main agri-environmental public goods and their provision through farmning practice

This chapter examines how countries variously define agri-environmental public goods and how this affects the choice of policies that target these public goods. It also examines how agri-environmental public goods are provided by farmers. Various driving forces (farm systems, farming practices, farm inputs and agricultural infrastructure) affect environmental outcomes (the provision of agri-environmental public goods). Some farming practices and policy measures bring both positive and negative impacts on the agri-environmental public goods in a different way and degree. This chapter shows the importance of how a better understanding of agriculture can provide agri-environmental public goods.