Trinity research shows that depending on how schemes are designed and delivered, well-being impacts can be positive or negative. Time spent in nature and peer discussion groups are key to fostering ...

A new comprehensive survey has highlighted an urgent need to enable more farmers and contractors to revive England’s hedgerows to meet national restoration targets. While agri-environment schemes (AES ...

Agri-environment schemes can significantly increase local bird and butterfly populations without damaging food production, a long-term research project has found. Scientists spent a decade intensively ...

There can be no analysis without data. In this spirit, researchers from the University of Bonn and the Swiss Federal Institution of Technology (ETH) Zurich have published a database containing over ...

Ireland today unveiled a new €1.5bn Agri-Climate Rural Environment Scheme that it says is ‘user friendly for farmers’ and will deliver ‘broader environmental and biodiversity benefits’. But the ...

Following the announcement of the government's budget for agri-environment schemes, NFU Vice-president Robyn Munt said there ...

Alongside many other negotiations, the government is working on plans for a new Environmental Land Management system (ELMs), which it hopes will bring thousands of farmers back to agri-environmental ...

The charts show the relationship between the percentage of a country’s gross domestic product generated by the agriculture industry and how many national agri-environmental policies it has. Richer ...

The EU Commission’s newly published guidelines on designing agri-environment measures for the next CAP deserve close attention. Despite political talk of refocusing the CAP on productivity, the ...

A common belief among farmers, though one generally uttered quietly, is that their neighbours could be doing a better job. Perhaps they have sown wheat too early, or failed to tackle weeds. The same ...

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The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has issued an update on the various scheme payments made to farmers ...