This article presents an overview of statistical data on agriculture and the environment in the European Union (EU). Farming can have beneficial influences on the environment, for instance in creating valuable landscapes and habitats. But inappropriate agricultural practices and land use can also have an adverse impact on natural resources, like the pollution of soil, water and air, fragmentation of habitats and loss of wildlife.
The links between the richness of the natural environment and farming practices are complex. Agri-environmental indicators are used to quantify and describe these complex relations between agricultural and agri-environmental policies, agricultural practices and the environment. AEI assess trends over time of
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