Land Use Policy Group
Securing our Common Future through Environmentally
Sustainable Land Management - Vision for the Future of the CAP
post 2013
On Monday, 30 March, the GB government advisors on the
countryside and environment joined forces under the banner of the
Land Use Policy Group (LUPG) to launch their Vision for the
Future of the CAP post 
2013.
Responses to the LUPG Vision were
provided by:
- Tassos Haniotis of the European Commission;
- Alan Buckwell of the European Landowners Organisation
(ELO); and
- Alfred Herberg of the German
Nature
Conservation Agency (Bundesamt fur Naturschutz).
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
accounts for nearly half the budget of the European Union. The size
of the CAP budget has been agreed up until 2013. Negotiations are
already underway to determine its future role and the size of the
budget after that date. The LUPG Vision provides a significant
contribution to this debate. Read more
Latest addition to the site: Adapting agricultural policy to
increased flood risk
The study categorises the likely causes and impacts of increased
flooding on agricultural businesses and described the types of
adaptation strategies that can be adopted by farmers.
It examines how the different components of the CAP currently
influence farmers’ ability to adapt to flood risk and the changes
that can be adopted to increase this and briefly examines
a range of measures that lie outside the CAP, before drawing
overall conclusions and making recommendations. Read more.
LUPG Annual Report 2008-09
The 2008-09 Annual Report is now available for download.
Read
more.
Agri-Environment Schemes – Learning Lessons and Preparing for
the Future
LUPG has recently commissioned several pieces of work to help
develop our thinking on the future direction of agri-environment
policy. The seminar was designed to present this work,
provide an opportunity to debate the findings and to look at how
best apply these ideas in the context of future CAP reform.
Read more
Latest Reports
Adapting agricultural policy to increased flood
risk
Agri-Environment Schemes - Learning lessons and
preparing for the future
Research to explore EU Transboundary Environmental
issues
An analysis of the potential effectiveness of a
Payment-by-Results approach to the delivery of environmental public
goods and services supplied by agri-environment schemes
The Impacts of the Single Payment Scheme on Woodland
Expansion
Delivering
environmental services through agri-environment programmes:a
scoping study
A review of
environmental benefits supplied by agri-environmental
schemes
The Impacts of the Single Payment Scheme on Woodland
Expansion
National Envelopes
Achieving Better Water Management in the EU:
Response to the European Commission consultation on
the "Health Check" communication
Proceedings of the Future Policies for Rural Europe
Conference (held September 2007).
Cross Compliance - A Policy Options Paper
World timber trade and implementing sustainable
forest management in the United Kingdom.
Retaining the
environmental benefits of set-aside.
Maximising
the provision of public goods from future agri-environment
schemes.
Position Statements
Cross Compliance (2007), Modulation (2007), Decoupling (2007), Set-aside (2007)
These position statements are now also available in Welsh.
Mae'r datganiadau defyllfa yma hefyd ar gael yn Gymraeg.
Datganiad Sefyllfa’r
GPDT -Trawsgydymffurfio (2007), Datganiad Sefyllfa’r GPDT – Modiwleiddio (2007),
Datganiad Sefyllfa’r GPDT – Datgysylltu
(2007), Datganiad Sefyllfa’r GPDT – Neilltir
(2007)
Contact us
If you have any comments or queries regarding the Land Use
Policy Group or this website please contact us at
. For country specific
questions, ask the agency contacts.