The future of olive groves on sloping land and ex-ante assessment of cross compliance for erosion control

Land Use Policy

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 33-41

  de Graaff, Jan ^a   Duarte, Filomena ^b   Fleskens, Luuk ^c   de Figueiredo, Tomás ^d  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Instituto Superior de Economia Agraría e Sociologia Rural   (Portugal)

^c National Agricultural Research Institute   (Eritrea)

^d Escola Superior de Educação de Bragança   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Cross compliance; Olive groves; Policies; Scenarios; Soil erosion

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY; COMPLIANCE; EROSION CONTROL; SOIL EROSION; SOIL MANAGEMENT; TREE;

EID: 69549103413     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2008.02.006     Document Type: Article

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