Resilience to environmental pressure: the role of agriculture in Wallonia (South of Belgium)

peer reviewed ; Agriculture is under environmental pressure since its modernization, mainly after the Second World War, which generated the use of large quantities of chemical products as pesticides and fertilizers. However, during the three last décades, the preservation of the quality of the environment progressively became a priority of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and different measures were successively implemented, some of them being compulsory and other ones not, or not yet. This paper focuses on the implementation of agricultural Policy measures at the regional level of Walloni... Mehr ...