PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Kubíčková, Simona
TI  - Support of the landscape amenity function of agriculture and trade liberalisation
DP  - 2015 Feb 22
TA  - Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis
PG  - 77--86
VI  - 52
IP  - 6
AID - 10.11118/actaun200452060077
IS  - 12118516
AB  - Recent agricultural policy and trade discussions have given increasing attention to "multifunctionality", the notion, that agriculture provides multiple outputs that include public goods (such as landscape amenities) as well as privately traded commodities. A frequent point of contention is also whether payment for the provision of non-commodity outputs distorts trade by giving domestic farmers a competitive advantage over foreign competitors. The paper reviews some requirements for environmental policy design and the role of property rights for the justification of the development of compensation programs targeted to landscape protection. The second part of the paper illustrates the possibilities, how to use results of Contingent Valuation (CV) study of landscape amenity benefits of agriculture to prove eligibility for agri-environmental payments in the case of the Protected Landscape Area White Carpathians (Bílé Karpaty). It is documented in the paper, that Contingent Valuation can provide useful information about genuine concern and overall efficiency of compensation programs as well as people's views about alternative ethical ends, besides human well-being, that policy makers should take in consideration.