Roles of Agriculture Project Policy Brief. Number 1, January 2006

Sakuyama, T.;Stringer, R.

Roles of Agriculture Project Policy Brief. Number 1, January 2006

Economic Valuation on Environmental Services from Agriculture: Stocktaking for Incentive Design

Year of publication 2006

Pages 8p.

Author Sakuyama, T.;Stringer, R.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Policy brief

Edition 1

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Synopsis (short abstract) This first edition of ROA Policy Brief is designed to clarify the roles of economic valuation of the external impacts from agriculture in policy-making, by resolving misunderstanding and confusion pertaining to existing valuation studies.

Language English

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Japanese

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