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Agricultural conservation /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Nova Science Publishers,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Agriculture issues and policies series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Agricultural Conservation; Contents; Preface; Agricultural Conservation: USDA Should Improve Its Process for Allocating Funds to States for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program; What GAO Found; Abbreviations; Results in Brief; Background; NRCS's Process for Allocating EQIP Funds to the States Does Not Clearly Address the Program's Purpose of Optimizing Environmental Benefits; Conclusions; Recommendations for Executive Action; Agency Comments and Our Evaluation; Appendix I: Objectives, Scope, and Methodology; Appendix II: EQIP 2006 Funding Allocation Formulas.
- Appendix III: Statistical Techniques to Determine Influential Factors in the 2006 EQIP Financial Allocation FormulaFactor Analysis of EQIP Environmental Variables; Appendix IV: Initial EQIP Funding Provided to the States, Fiscal Year 2006; Appendix V: Historical EQIP Funding Levels, Fiscal Years 2001-2006; Appendix VI: Fiscal Year EQIP Obligations by Conservation Practice; Appendix VII: Comments from the U.S. Department of Agriculture; References; Agricultural Conservation: USDA Should Improve Its Management of Key Conservation Programs to Ensure Payments Promote Environmental Goals.
- What GAO FoundNRCS's Process for Allocating EQIP Funds to the States Does Not Link to the Program's Purpose of Optimizing Environmental Benefits; NRCS Has Begun to Develop More Outcome-Oriented Performance Measures for EQIP, but Has Not Yet Linked Them to the Funding Allocation Process; Legislative and Regulatory Measures Reduce the Potential for Duplication between CSP and Other Programs, but the Potential Remains for Duplicate Payments, and Such Payments Have Occurred; Appendix I: Description of Key USDA Conservation Programs; References; Conservation and the 2007 Farm Bill; Abstract.
- Most Recent Developments [1]Introduction; Issues Shaping the Conservation Debate; Congressional Activities; Other Conservation Proposals; Appendix A. Comparison of the Conservation Titles in the House and Senate Farm Bills (H.R. 2419); References; Solid and Water Conservation: An Overview; Abstract; Most Recent Developments; Evolution of Federal Resource Conservation Issues; Current Major Conservation Activities; Conservation Funding; 2007 Farm Bill; References; Agriculture Conservation Programs: A Scorecard; Abstract; Introduction; Conservation Programs; References.
- Majority Funding for Agriculture Conservation ProgramsAbstract; Introduction; Mandatory Conservation Funding Before 2002; The 2002 Farm Bill; Spending Limits on Mandatory Appropriations Since FY2002; Discussion; Concluding Observations; References; Index.