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Revised Agri-environment Policy Objectives: Implications for Scheme Design

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The new objectives for agri-environment policy recommended by the Policy Commission for the Future of Food and Farming are reviewed and proposals to achieve them are assessed. The Commission proposes a unified scheme, with a 'broad and shallow' tier that would incorporate a whole-farm environmental plan and audit. Participation at this level would be a prerequisite for entry into higher tiers focused on securing regional and national ecological, landscape and bio-diversity priorities. However, the Commission recognizes that further resource protection measures need to be developed to substantiate its design, particularly to enable the delivery of 'wider bio-diversity and landscape benefits'. Innovations in addition to those recommended by the Policy Commission are advocated here. These include adding Cultural options and a two-option Enhanced Level tier. The specifications of the first Enhanced Level option would be based on each farm's Sustainability Index Score. The second option would overcome the 'economics of configuration' problem by encouraging farmers to co-operate to deliver environmental outputs as members of 'environmental clubs'. The possibility of using web-based technology to increase the transparency of agri-environmental payments is also discussed. The design proposed here streamlines, simplifies and increases the efficiency of the existing agri-environment schemes.

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  • Jeremy Franks, 2003. "Revised Agri-environment Policy Objectives: Implications for Scheme Design," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 46(3), pages 443-466.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:jenpmg:v:46:y:2003:i:3:p:443-466
    DOI: 10.1080/0964056032000096857
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    1. Franks, J.R. & Collis, Jimi, 2003. "On-Farm Benchmarking: How to Do It and How to Do It Better," 14th Congress, Perth, Western Australia, August 10-15, 2003 24326, International Farm Management Association.

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