This component captures the average damage costs resulting from the loss of agricultural areas or the benefits resulting from an increase of agricultural areas (in prices of 2010).
A loss of agricultural area constitutes a decline of an important form of natural capital, crucial for a sustainable economy, ecology and area development; vice versa, an increase can be considered positive.
billion Euro
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source: Statistisches Bundesamt, graphic account by FEST/FFU