Limitations in Evaluating Environmental and Agricultural Policy Coordination Benefits
指出农业政策传统上关注农场收入稳定和低价食品供应，1985年《食品安全法案》首次将农场收入与环境问题直接挂钩，通过保护储备计划等协调保护与收入政策，但评估其协调效益存在局限性。
Agricultural policy has traditionally been concerned with the maintenance and stability of farm income, and the provision of a stable food supply at low relative prices. The Food Security Act of 1985 was the first farm legislation to directly tie farm income and environmental concerns through the Conservation Reserve Program, conservation compliance, sodbuster, and swampbuster provisions. The coordination of conservation and farm income policies contributed to commodity supply control by reducing the availability of arable land, and it promoted environmental quality by removing some highly erodible land and wetlands from crop production. A number of new environmental and food safety initiatives are also being enacted outside the agricultural policy process. The most significant piece of legislation is the Water Quality Act of 1987, designed to control