Abstract
Research has not been previously carried out in Ireland on methods of measuring nature conversation and landscape development on Irish farms. Parameters for measuring the development and improvement of farm landscapes in the EU were applied on two organic farms and two conventional farms to test their suitability for measuring nature and landscape development under Irish conditions. In all 86 parameters were evaluated. All the parameters were applied successfully. Some were more useful than others in this investigation but all were retained so that all the situations which influence nature and landscape in Ireland could be covered. Application of the parameters showed that organic farming has an overall positive effect on landscape and nature production on farms and has no negative effects. Conventional farming can have some positive environmental effects but has neutral or negative effects in most cases. The results show that the methodology used in this paper provide a suitable prototype for measuring landscape development on Irish farms.
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