Sentence examples for conservation payments from inspiring English sources

"They wanted means testing, payment limitations, significantly more conservation payments," Ms. Thatcher said.

CONSERVATION PAYMENTS Dedicate $17 billion over 10 years to preserve farmland, save wetlands and improve water quality and soil conservation on farms.

Market-based policies such as pollution taxes, tradable permits and conservation payments redress the balance by creating new incentives that reflect society's environmental values.

In the last five years, conservation payments have fallen to 9percentt of all farm subsidies from 30percentt of the payments.

"Unlike the payments made to farmers for certain commodity production, conservation payments are considered nontrade distorting," said Representative Ron Kind, Democrat of Wisconsin.

About 67% of that went on nutritional assistance to the poor, mostly food stamps, while cash paid to farmers through income support and conservation payments accounted for 23%.

Many countries have implemented conservation payment programs for agricultural land conversion to counter this trend.

According to data from the Environmental Working Group, a Washington research group, the government has provided about $4.2 billion in conservation subsidy payments to landowners since 1997.

Our methodology redresses asymmetries in knowledge about biodiversity in delivering conservation incentive payments, and is justified when policy goals demand a high level of rigor.

In the present paper we explore the novel conservation performance payment approach which for wildlife livestock conflicts, so far, has only been implemented in Sweden.

We highlight the conservation and payment for riparian ecosystem services delivered in the upstream of Huangpu River, and revegetation and enhancement of riparian ecosystems in the more urbanized downstream area.