The concept of good agricultural practice has been introduced in amongst the complexity of the current relationships between agriculture, environment and water resources, and between positive and negative effects, and amongst the wide range of local realities and production systems and so on.
I det komplekse nuværende forhold mellem landbruget, miljøet og vandressourcerne, hvor der er positive og negative virkninger, og hvor der er en lang række lokale situationer, produktionssystemer osv., har man indført begrebet god landbrugsskik.