@article{Mészáros:231518,
      recid = {231518},
      author = {Mészáros, Dóra and Hufnagel, Levente and Balász, Katalin  and Bíró, Zsolt and Jancsovszka, Paulina},
      title = {Farm-level environmental performance assessment in Hungary  using the Green-point system},
      journal = {Studies in Agricultural Economics},
      address = {2015-12},
      number = {1316-2016-102843},
      pages = {9},
      year = {2015},
      note = {http://dx.doi.org/10.7896/j.1426},
      abstract = {Faced with society’s increasing expectations, the European  Union’s Common Agricultural Policy uses environmental  management as an increasingly critical criterion in the  allocation of farm subsidies, with a shift in focus from  production and area-based subsidies to payments for  supplying public goods. There is an increasing demand to  assess the ecological and environmental performance of  farms as public money spent on provision of environmental  services requires justification. The objective of this  research is to strengthen the basis of the concept of  farm-level environmental performance assessment. Firstly we  give
an overview of indicator-based sustainability  assessment tools. Even though there are several diff erent  tools developed globally, and the themes and indicators for  the assessment of environmental performance are very  similar, there are significant
differences in terms of data  survey among them. Secondly we describe the development and  field testing of the ‘Green-point
system’ developed in  Hungary. This system is able to measure the environmental  performance of farms and their value/
capability of  providing public goods and sustaining ecosystem services  through a framework of farm enterprise calculations
and  assessments. The Green-point system fits well into the  stream of yet scarce approaches and efforts, which in  several
European countries aim to introduce and strengthen  the so-called result-based agri-environmental schemes  alongside the
currently rather dominant management-based  approaches.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/231518},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.231518},
}