Governments are increasingly aware of the importance of
monitoring and evaluating their policies − including agri-
environmental policies − and are devoting efforts to
strengthening their monitoring and evaluation systems and
capacities. They aim to improve their performance by
establishing evidence-based policy-making, evidence-based
management and evidence-based accountability, which will help to
improve the design and implementation of policies. Have agri-
environmental and agricultural policies, including cross-
compliance and environmental regulations, succeeded in meeting
environmental objectives for agriculture in OECD countries (and
selected non-OECD countries)? What is the role for governments
to encourage farmers to deliver environmental public goods? This
report presents a selection of papers presented at the OECD
Workshop on Evaluation of Agri-environmental Policies, held in
June 2011 in Braunschweig, Germany. The report includes case
studies of agri-environmental policy evaluation from Belgium,
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