Archive:Agri-environmental indicators - driving forces - input use
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Agriculture and the environment
With about 40 % of the EU’s land area being farmed, agriculture has a very important impact on the natural environment. Farming can have beneficial influences on the environment, for instance in creating valuable landscapes and habitats. But inappropriate agricultural practices and land use can also have an adverse impact on natural resources, like the pollution of soil, water and air, fragmentation of habitats and loss of wildlife.
Agri-Environmantal Indicators (AEI)
The links between the richness of the natural environment and farming practices are complex. AEI are used to quantify and describe these complex relations between agricultural and agri-environmental policies, agricultural practices and the environment. AEI assess trends over time of;
- the effects of agriculture on the environment;
- the effectiveness and efficiency of agricultural and environmental policy measures.
The Commission is developing 28 indicators following the Driving Forces - Pressures - State - Impact - Response model. The DPSIR concept is an analytical framework that has been developed at the European Environment Agency (Environmental indicators - Typology and overview, EEA, 1999) in order to describe and understand the inter-linkages between economic activities and the environment relating to farming practices, agricultural production systems, pressures and risk to the environment and the state of natural resources.
Driving force indicators
The driving force indicators contribute to a better understanding of the state and evolution of regional farming systems in relation to input use, land use and management practices. They also shed light on general farm trends (intensification/extensification, diversification, and marginalisation) that can affect the conservation of environmental resources in either positive or negative ways.
The driving force indicators relate to:
- Input use: Mineral fertiliser consumption, Consumption of pesticides, Irrigation, Energy use,
- Land use: Land use change, Cropping patterns, Livestock patterns,
- Farm management: Soil cover, Tillage practices, Manure storage,
- Trends: Intensification/extensification, Specialisation, Risk of land abandonment.
In this article a selection of the input use indicators are explained:
- Mineral fertiliser consumption by agriculture
- Irrigation
- Energy use by agriculture
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