Land Use Policy Group
January 2010
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions through agri-environment and
woodland management measures: policy recommendations for the
CAP
Speech by Rob Cooke (Chairman of LUPG) to the European
Parliament Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development public
hearing on ‘EU Agriculture and Climate Change’. Read more.
December 2009
Estimating the scale of future environmental land management
requirements for the UK
A key consideration for the EU Budget and the future Common
Agricultural Policy will be identifying the expenditure needed to
achieve defined public environmental objectives. The purpose
of this research was to identify indicators capable of being used
at the UK level as the basis for estimating the scale of
environmental land management activity necessary to meet current
policy objectives. The contractors were then asked to
estimate how much it might cost to deliver the management
required. Read more.
March 2009
Securing our Common Future through Environmentally
Sustainable Land Management - Vision for the Future of the CAP post
2013
On Monday, 30 March 2009, 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. Read
more.
Agri-Environment Schemes – Learning Lessons and Preparing for
the Future
LUPG commissioned several pieces of work to help develop our
thinking on the future direction of agri-environment policy.
This 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
LUPG Annual Reports
LUPG's
annual reports are available for download here.
Latest research reports
Estimating the scale of environmental land management
requirements (December 2009)
Mapping European Networks which influence land-use
and related environmental policies (October 2009)
Adapting agricultural policy to increased flood
risk (June 2009)
Agri-Environment Schemes - Learning lessons and
preparing for the future (conference, March 2009)
Research to explore EU Transboundary Environmental
issues (February 2009)
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 (November 2008)
Delivering
environmental services through agri-environment programmes:a
scoping study (November 2008)
A review of
environmental benefits supplied by agri-environmental
schemes (August 2008)
The Impacts of the Single Payment Scheme on
Woodland Expansion (July 2008)
National Envelopes (June 2008)
Position Statements
Cross Compliance (2007), Modulation (2007), Decoupling (2007), Set-aside (2007)
These position statements are 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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