CAP reform and agri-environment schemes

CAP reform and the recent introduction of the Environmental Stewardship Scheme in England (and similar changes in Wales and Scotland) are heralding a new era in rural land management.

LUC has been assisting in the interpretation of these changes at a national and regional level with the central objective of integrating productive agriculture with more sustainable land management practices.

Recent work has included

Preparation of Guidance Notes in support of Entry Level Stewardship applications within the protected landscapes of the South East region
Countryside Agency, 2005

Collating Fine-grained Landscape Information for all 158 Joint Character Areas in England to inform targeting of the Environmental Stewardship Scheme
Countryside Agency, 2004
With Julie Martin Associates, Shiels Flynn and Countryscape

Issues for the South East’s Finest Countryside arising from the Luxembourg agreement on CAP reform - providing the Countryside Agency’s written response to Defra consultations on CAP reform on behalf of the SE AONBs
Countryside Agency, 2004

Annex IV Cross Compliance Under the New CAP Regime: landscape options and costs (for the Countryside Agency to inform their advice and formal response to Defra on the landscape elements of the Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions that will apply (as part of cross compliance) to farmers receiving the Single Farm Payment)
Countryside Agency, 2004

Conceptual Models to Guide Environmental Land Management Policy examining the role of conceptual models, including the ‘land use pyramid’, in future policy development
Land Use Policy Group, 2004/05