AE-FOOTPRINT: The Agri-Environmental Footprint Development of a common generic methodology for evaluating the effectiveness of European Agri-environmental Schemes

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AE-FOOTPRINT The Agri-Environmental
FootprintDevelopment of a common generic
methodology for evaluating the effectiveness of
European Agri-environmental Schemes

• AE-FOOTPRINT is an EU Specific Targeted Research
  Project with eight partner organisations from
  seven Member States UK University of Reading
  (co-ordinator)
• Ireland National University of Ireland, Dublin
• Teagasc (Irish Agriculture Food Development
  Authority)
• Germany Institute für ländliche
  Strukturforschung, Johann Wolfgang Goethe
  Universität Frankfurt
• Denmark Royal Veterinary and Agricultural
  University
• Hungary Szent Istvan University
• Greece Agricultural University of Athens
• Finland MTT Agrifood Research
• The aim of this research is the construction of a
  farm-level Agri-Environmental Footprint Index
  (AFI) that aggregates the measurement of
  appropriate agri-environmental indicators.
• Example applications of the AFI could be to
• measure the changing environmental impact of
  individual farms within a particular context
  (farm type, geographical region) over time
• produce a measure of environmental impact that
  can be aggregated across farms of similar context
• enable comparison of the environmental impact
  of farms according to participation in
  agri-environmental schemes.

J. Primdahl
K. Knickel
G. Purvis
Y. Tuunanen
K. Knickel
A. Mauchline
Workpackage details
Project website www.footprint.reading.ac.uk EU
project code SSPE-CT-2005-006491
K. Balázs
P. Tóth
Y. Tuunanen
G. Purvis
K. Haysom
J. Park
Contact details Project Coordinator Dr. Simon
Mortimer, Centre for Agri-Environmental
Research Department of Agriculture, University
of Reading, Earley Gate, PO Box 237, Reading, RG6
6AR, UK. Email s.r.mortimer_at_rdg.ac.uk Tel 
44 (0)118 378 8475 Fax [phone]