Countries' Agri-Environmental Policies Database

Abstract

A new database of 6124 policies at the intersection of agriculture and the environment. Implemented between 1960 and 2022 in over 200 countries. Comprises a wide range of types of policies (e.g., ranging from legislative changes to payments for ecosystem services), as well as a wide range of goals (e.g., from pesticide regulations to forest conservation). It allows to e.g. count such policies per country, filter to select specific policies, and to create policy indices, e.g. weighting countries' policies with contextual factors that enhance to hinder policy performance (e.g. policy budgets, enforcement, stringency, corruption). The main database comes in the formats CSV, EXCEL, and DTA, country averages are provided in CSV and DTA, the dataset for the soil erosion policy analysis is provided in DTA and the code for the analysis is a DO-file.