Title: Overview of biodiversity indicators related to agriculture in Belgium.
Abstract: The sustainability of farming systems is currently under debate. Nowadays, agriculture has become not only a food provider but also a provider of goods and services for tourism, leisure, landscape management, nature conservation, etc. Agricultural management practices have a key impact on biodiversity conservation, a serious decline of many plant and animal species which are traditionally linked to agricultural areas has been demonstrated. Although not all impacts are negative, a need to identify and monitor pressures on biodiversity coming from agriculture has been identified. Agrobiodiversity indicators are the proposed mean to achieve that objective. This paper summarises the state-of-the-art in Belgium (at Federal and Regional levels) of the use of indicators to monitor and analyse agricultural impacts on biodiversity.
Publication Year: 2003
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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