Ian Hodge

TL;DR: It is argued that more radical changes are required that recognize biodiversity as a global public good, that integrate biodiversity conservation into policies and decision frameworks for resource production and consumption, and that focus on wider institutional and societal changes to enable more effective implementation of policy.

TL;DR: The results show that organic farming practices generally have positive impacts on the environment per unit of area, but not necessarily per product unit, and that conventional farming systems have lower environmental impacts than organic systems.

TL;DR: In this paper, an alternative specification of property rights in land is explored, and it is shown how this different structure opens up new options for governments to influence the visual and economic attributes of rural areas.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employ Q methodology to investigate the perceptual frameworks of a sample of UK arable and mixed lowland farmers regarding the appropriate way in which to approach the environmental management of agricultural land.

TL;DR: In the Uruguay Round trade negotiations, policies are exempt from commitments to reduce aggregate measures of support (AMS) if they fall into the 'green box' by meeting a number of criteria specified in Annex 2 of the Agreement on Agriculture as discussed by the authors.