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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 Tassos Haniotis2013. 

Responses to the LUPG Vision were provided by:

  • Tassos Haniotis of the European Commission;

 

Allan Buckwell, ELO

  • Alan Buckwell of the European Landowners Organisation (ELO); and

 

 

  • Alfred Herberg of the German Dr Alfred Herberg, Bundesamt fur NaturschutzNature Conservation Agency (Bundesamt fur Naturschutz).

 

 

 

Tassos Haniotis, Allan Buckwell, David Baldock, Alfred Herberg and John Taylor, Speakers at the LUPG Vision launch, 31 March 2009

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)

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The Land Use Policy Group aims to advise on policy matters of common concern related to agriculture, woodlands and other rural land uses.

 
 
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