FARM NEWS 5
• AUG/SEP 2019
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BREXIT vote offers chance for
farming to become more diverse
and environmentally resilient, say
countryside campaigners
A new report released by the
Campaign to Protect Rural England
(CPRE) argues that farming in
England needs to become more
diverse to prove environmentally
resilient and publicly accessible
over the coming years .
The New model farming paper
argues that a more diverse sector
- in demographics,
farm size and
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production – would forge a more
resilient future that offers rewards
beyond food: beautiful landscapes,
clean water, abundant wildlife,
better flood management and
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improved carbon storage. It also
argues that a post-Brexit settle-
ment along these lines would make
clearer the public benefits of huge
public investment in farming.
The paper suggests that
Government should attempt
to reverse narrow trends of
industrialisation and short-term
efficiency that have long inflicted
damage on vital natural assets -
from landscapes and wildlife to
soils and water. Damage to soil
is estimated to cost £1.2 billion
a year, while populations of
farmland birds in England have
more than halved in the past 40
years.
To arrest this decline in
diversity across the sector,
CPRE argues that Government
should address the bias in policy
towards larger farms through
the tapering of public funding
to benefit smaller farmers. It is
currently thought that around
80% of the Common Agricultural
Policy (CAP) payment goes to
the 20% largest businesses.
With 34,000 fewer farms in the
UK than there were a decade
ago, CPRE also suggests that
more land should be made avail-
able to new groups of farmers
and communities.
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