SAC Rural Policy Centre

Agricultural activity effects our environment in a variety of ways. Through their active management of agricultural landscapes, farmers and land managers help safeguard landscapes, habitats and biodiversity. Yet at the same time, agriculture generates waste, releases pollutants and greenhouse gases and can involve the abstraction and use of water. Agricultural production therefore generates positive and negative environmental impacts.

In the context of greater public awareness of the amounts of public money entering agriculture, there is an increasing interest from government in the relative balance of these positive and negative impacts and in developing a set of environmental accounts that quantifies and places economic values on them. In an ongoing effort to develop a set of environmental accounts for agriculture, Jacobs and SAC have recently reviewed and updated a preliminary set of accounts developed in 2004.

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