Multifunctionality, Agricultural Policy, and Environmental Policy

origins of armenia’s foreign policy and its foreign policy towards iran

foreign policy takes root from complicated matters. however, this issue may be more truth about armenia. although the new government of armenia is less than 20 years, people of this territory are the first ones who officially accepted christianity. in very past times, these people were a part of great emperors like iran, rome, and byzantium.armenia is regarded as a nation with a privileged hist...

Integrated modelling tools for agricultural and environmental policy analysis

The food industry in the EU is currently facing an era of changes and farmers need to adapt to the changing patterns induced by the food crisis, the global financial crisis, farm output price volatility, macroeconomic instability, climate change and a new post-2013 CAP. Throughout this unstable period, the impact of these changes on farmers’ incomes will be a key issue to be addressed by EU pol...

Policy Instruments in the Common Agricultural Policy

Policy changes in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) can be explained in terms of the exhaustion and long-term contradictions of policy instruments. Changes in policy instruments have reoriented the policy without any change in formal Treaty goals. The social and economic efficacy of instruments in terms of evidence-based policy analysis was a key factor in whether they were delegitimized. Th...

Environmental policy and technological

Taxonomy and environmental policy.

In 1992, with the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro and the subsequent Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the world changed for the science of taxonomy. Many taxonomists appear not to have noticed this change, but it has significantly altered the political climate in which taxonomic research is undertaken. By the late 1990s it was clear that effec...