Agri-environmental policies in a transitional economy: the value of agricultural biodiversity in Hungarian home gardens

cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.coverage.countryHungary
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2HU
cg.coverage.regionEastern Europe
cg.coverage.regionEurope
cg.creator.identifierEkin Birol: 0000-0002-1062-1615
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Archive
cg.number117en
cg.placeWashington, DCen
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen
dc.contributor.authorBirol, Ekinen
dc.contributor.authorSmale, Melindaen
dc.contributor.authorGyovai, Agnesen
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-24T12:43:24Zen
dc.date.available2024-10-24T12:43:24Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/156175
dc.titleAgri-environmental policies in a transitional economy: the value of agricultural biodiversity in Hungarian home gardensen
dcterms.abstractAgricultural biodiversity is an environmental resource. Much of the agricultural biodiversity remaining in situ today is found on the semi-subsistence farms of poorer countries and the small-scale farms or home gardens of more industrialized nations. The traditional small farms of Hungary are labelled “home gardens” as a reflection of their institutional identity during the collectivisation period. Homesteads managed with family labor, they continue to serve essential food security and diet quality functions during economic transition. Home gardens contribute to the preservation of rural settlements and cultural heritage, and they contain relatively high levels of several components of agricultural biodiversity. The role of home gardens in the agri-environmental program that is now being formulated by Hungary and the European Union has not been elucidated, though the stated goal of these policies is to support multifunctional agriculture. This study estimates the private value that Hungarian farmers assign to home gardens and their biodiversity attributes, and indicates how such information might be used in designing least-cost mechanisms to support their maintenance as part of the national agri-environmental program. -- Authors' Abstracten
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationBirol, Ekin; Smale, Melinda; Gyovai, Agnes. 2004. Agri-environmental policies in a transitional economy: the value of agricultural biodiversity in Hungarian home gardens. EPTD Discussion Paper 117. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/156175en
dcterms.extent40 p.en
dcterms.isPartOfEPTD Discussion Paperen
dcterms.issued2004
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/65494en
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.subjectbiodiversityen
dcterms.subjectsmall farmsen
dcterms.subjectdomestic gardensen
dcterms.subjectfood securityen
dcterms.subjectrural settlementen
dcterms.subjecteconomic situationen
dcterms.subjectenvironmental factorsen
dcterms.subjectin situ conservationen
dcterms.subjectagrobiodiversityen
dcterms.typeWorking Paper

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