This book offers essential insights into the policy and legal implications of the results-based approach in terms of shaping recent agri-environmental and climate commitments in the European Union and encouraging farmers to deliver significant and quantifiable enhancements of the quality of the environment within the EU Common Agricultural Policy.

To do so, it addresses several cutting-edge questions: what is the current legal understanding of ecosystem services in the European Union? How has the ecosystem-based approach and its linkage with the multifunctional role of agriculture been recognised in EU agricultural law? How have agri-environmental and climate schemes evolved to adopt the results-based approach? To what extent is the Common Agricultural Policy's new model encouraging farmers to deliver significant and quantifiable enhancements of the quality of the environment? What is the impact of the Common Agricultural Policy on EU actions concerning ecosystem and nature restoration? And lastly, what is the role of digitalisation and the AKIS in enhancing results-based agri-environmental and climate commitments in the EU?

Given its scope, the book will be of interest to a wide readership of researchers, practitioners, professionals, students, and policymakers interested in agricultural law, rural development studies, ecosystem-based management, climate change, environmental studies, political science, and economics.

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Dr. Andrea Saba is Assistant Professor in Agricultural, Food and Environmental Law at the DIRPOLIS Institute of the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy. For several years, he taught at the Department of Agricultural Sciences at the University of Sassari, Italy. Until April 2019 Dr. Saba worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Agricultural Law at the Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences (DISTAL) of the University of Bologna, Italy, where he was involved in a number of research projects funded by the EU Horizon 2020 Programme. He was also Visiting Researcher at the Australian Centre for Agricultural and Law, University of New England, Armidale, Australia; the Wageningen Economic Research, Wageningen UR, The Hague, Netherlands; and the Thünen Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries, Braunschweig, Germany. Dr. Saba holds a PhD in Agricultural Law, Environmental Law and Sustainable Development from the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy.