Environmental Compliance in U.S. Agricultural Policy: Past Performance and Future Potential

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英文名称：

Environmental Compliance in U.S. Agricultural Policy: Past Performance and Future Potential

作者：

Roger Claassen; Vince Breneman; Shawn Bucholtz; Andrea Cattaneo; Robert Johansson; Mitch Morehart

工作单位：

USDA's Economic Research Service

来源地址：

https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details/?pubid=41660

关键词：

conservation compliance;  Sodbuster;  Swampbuster;  conservation policy;  agri-environmental policy;  nutrient management;  buffer practices; 

年份：

2004

出版地：

Washington, DC, USA

总页数：

55 pp

语种：

English

摘要：

Since 1985, U.S. agricultural producers have been required to practice soil conservation on highly erodible cropland and conserve wetlands as a condition of farm program eligibility. This report discusses the general characteristics of compliance incentives, evaluates their effectiveness in reducing erosion in the program's current form, and explores the potential for expanding the compliance approach to address nutrient runoff from crop production. While soil erosion has, in fact, been reduced on land subject to Conservation Compliance, erosion is also down on land not subject to Conservation Compliance, indicating the influence of other factors. Analysis to isolate the influence of Conservation Compliance incentives from other factors suggests that about 25 percent of the decline in soil erosion between 1982 and 1997 can be attributed to Conservation Compliance. This report also finds that compliance incentives have likely deterred conversion of noncropped highly erodible land and wetland to cropland, and that a compliance approach could be used effectively to address nutrient runoff from crop production.