Evaluating Agri-environmental Policies
Design, Practice and Results
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These conference proceedings present a series of evaluations of agri-environmental policies in OECD countries. They examine how effective the policies have been in achieving objectives and what policy makers have learned about the design and implementation of their policies.
These proceedings show that different methods of policy evaluation are complementary. Most countries focus on evaluating the environmental effectiveness rather than the economic efficiency of policies, using physical indicators rather than monetary values. Many policies are achieving their environmental objectives, but are taking longer than originally anticipated. The initiative being taken in many countries to incorporate monitoring and data collection into programme design and implementation is a positive development. But a number of steps need to be taken to improve the quality of evaluations, including the better articulation of policy goals and objectives, improving data quality and establishing baselines for comparison.
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Key Issues
The three papers in Part I raise the major issues involved in evaluating agri-environmental policies, from both a government and academic perspective, and from a theoretical and practical application. The following comments are based on my experience from participating in the OECD Environmental Performance Reviews, both as a review team member and as a Finnish delegate to the OECD Working Party responsible for the reviews...
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