Many countries are reshaping their agricultural policies to better enhance biodiversity and ecosystem services (BES) in farmlands, but measuring the effectiveness of policy instruments in BES delivery is challenging. Using the European Agricultural Policy as an example, we propose the application of a farming systems (FS) approach as a cost‐effective tool for linking policy design and expected BES outcomes. On the basis of available data from subsidy payment agencies, such an approach can identify groups of farms that share similar management practices as well as the associations between FS and corresponding BES potential, and improve modeled outputs of farm management responses to policies and other drivers of change. We describe how this relatively unexplored source of information can help to support applied ecological research and relevant policy, and call for these data to be made available across Europe and elsewhere.

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一种将农业政策与生物多样性和生态系统服务联系起来的耕作制度方法

许多国家正在重塑其农业政策，以更好地增强农田中的生物多样性和生态系统服务（BES），但是衡量政策工具在BES交付中的有效性是具有挑战性的。以欧洲农业政策为例，我们建议采用耕作制度（FS）的方法作为一种经济有效的工具，将政策设计与预期的BES成果联系起来。根据补贴支付机构的可用数据，这种方法可以识别具有相似管理实践以及FS和相应BES潜力之间的关联的农场组，并改善农场管理对政策和其他驱动因素的响应的模型输出改变。