Water Quality and Agriculture: Meeting the Policy Challenge

OECD has just released a report: Water Quality and Agriculture: Meeting the Policy Challenge, see the OECD website www.oecd.org/agriculture/water

The report, with a policy and economics focus, contains a number of case studies on agriculture and water pollution at the regional (European Union, the Baltic Sea) and national (France, UK, and Australia) levels as well as in specific areas (Lake Taupo, New Zealand and Chesapeake Bay, United States). In addition, the report is supported by four background studies, which you can download from the above website, as follows:

• Agriculture and Water Quality: Monetary Costs and Benefits across OECD countries
• Water Quality Trading in Agriculture
• New and Emerging Water Pollution arising from Agriculture
• Agriculture’s Impact on Aquaculture: Hypoxia and Eutrophication in Marine Waters

Contact information	Kevin Parris, Policies and Environment Division, Trade and Agriculture Directorate, OECD, 2 Rue Andre-Pascal, 75775 Paris CEDEX 16, France (email: Kevin.PARRIS@oecd.org ; water@oecd.org ; tad.contact@oecd.org) Phone: +33 (0) 1 45 24 95 68
News type	Inbrief
File link	http://www.oecd.org/document/31/0,3746,en_2649_37401_49834719_1_1_1_37401,00.html
File link local	49849932.pdf (PDF, 827 Kb)
Source of information	OECD
Subject(s)	AGRICULTURE , PREVENTION AND NUISANCES POLLUTION , WATER QUALITY
Relation	http://www.oecd.org/OECDdirect
Geographical coverage	n/a
News date	08/06/2012
Working language(s)	ENGLISH