Data source: Wuepper, Wiebecke, Meier, Vogelsanger, Bramato, Fürholz and Finger
This database presents 6,124 agri-environmental policies implemented between 1960 and 2022 in about 200 countries. The database comprises a wide range of policy types (including regulations and payment schemes) and goals (such as biodiversity conservation, safer pesticide use and reducing nutrient pollution).
The original dataset comprises data at the policy level, for the QoG data compilations, the data is aggregated to a country-year count aggregated from the policy database, restricted to national-scale policies and excluding policies labeled as repealed. For EU member states, EU-level legislation policies for the same year are added to each EU member state.
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aepd_frame
Number of framework policies recorded for this country and year, counted from the underlying agricultural-environmental policy database. This is a country-year aggregate restricted to national-scale p ...
aepd_legis
Number of legislation policies recorded for this country and year. This is a country-year count aggregated from the policy database, restricted to national-scale policies and excluding policies labele ...
aepd_mix
Number of mixed policies recorded for this country and year. This is a country-year aggregate restricted to national-scale policies and excluding policies labeled as repealed. For EU member states, EU ...
aepd_monitor
Number of monitoring policies recorded for this country and year. This is a country-year aggregate restricted to national-scale policies and excluding policies labeled as repealed. For EU member state ...
aepd_pay
Number of payment scheme policies recorded for this country and year. This is a country-year aggregate restricted to national-scale policies and excluding policies labeled as repealed. For EU member s ...
aepd_rd
Number of R&D policies recorded for this country and year. This is a country-year aggregate restricted to national-scale policies and excluding policies labeled as repealed. For EU member states, EU-l ...
aepd_reg
Number of regulation policies recorded for this country and year. This is a country-year aggregate restricted to national-scale policies and excluding policies labeled as repealed. For EU member state ...
aepd_total
Total number of policies recorded for this country and year across all policy-type count columns in this dataset. All component counts are aggregated at the country-year level from the policy database ...