@article{Weingarten:14912,
      recid = {14912},
      author = {Weingarten, Peter},
      title = {AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY IN GERMANY - SOIL AND WATER  CONSERVATION -},
      address = {1997},
      number = {918-2016-72596},
      series = {IAMO Discussion Paper No. 4},
      pages = {29},
      year = {1997},
      abstract = {This paper is concerned with agri-environmental policy in  Germany and focuses in particular on soil and water  conservation. At first it discusses to what extent  agriculture contributes to erosion and the pollution of  surface waters and groundwater with nutrients and  pesticides. Whereas erosion is a minor problem in Germany  water pollution due to modern and intensive agriculture is  of major concern. In theory, a broad range of environmental  policy instruments exists. In practice, agri-environmental  policy in Germany is dominated by  command-and-control-measures, whereas incentivebased  measures are of minor importance. In this paper recent  developments of the most important legal and institutional  settings concerning soil and water conservation policies  are surveyed with special emphasis on the Federal Water Act  and the Implementation of the EU Nitrate Directive into  German legislation by the Fertilizer Ordinance. Since the  Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the EU heavily affects  farm structure, production intensity and regional  specialization in agriculture, agri-environmental issues  cannot be discussed without taking into account  agricultural policy. Hence, the paper argues, that for  different reasons the CAP is likely to become more  environmentally friendly in future. Furthermore, impacts of  alternative water conservation policies are investigated by  using a regionalized agricultural sector model. Information  obtained by the model analysis cover the development of  nitrogen balances, potential nitrate concentrations in the  soil percolation water, potentially resulting costs and  effects on the agricultural incomes in the former FRG on  the county level.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/14912},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.14912},
}