Important Barto Data for Agri-Environmental Monitoring
Monitoring of the Swiss Agri-Environmental System (MAUS)
In order to develop agricultural policy, it is important to know how agriculture affects the environment. For this reason, the Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG) performs an agri-environmental monitoring (AEM) service, based on the ‘Ordinance concerning the Evaluation of the Sustainability of Agriculture’ (SR 919.118). Agroscope’s Competence Centre for Agri-Environmental Indicators is responsible for coordinating and calculating agri-environmental indicators (AEIs), at both national and individual-farm level.