me? I think the UK's land management needs a radical overhaul and subsidising the status quo is a blocker. So very interested to see how this plays out.
Yes, this is very cool.
Environmental NGOs were working behind the scenes with Gove to draft the new legislation, which has the potential to be quite useful - it's based on paying farmers for providing (ecosystem) services, rather than just for owning land.
Will be interesting to see how much it gets watered down by politicians.
We have the right to a clean, healthy, sustainable environment.
El Pollo Diablo wrote: Wed Feb 26, 2020 2:13 pm
yerbut what makes em sh.t
Sorry, I was out.
To answer in a sentence: currently, some farm payments are made based on shite criteria like area, rather than whether that area is actually doing anything desirable, but the new idea is to pay based on doing socially useful things like providing recreational access, biodiversity/habitat protection, etcetera.
AIUI they're already trying to water down the regulatory body side of things, though, so maybe the rich landowners will be able to keep getting taxpayers'money for nothing, f.cked if I know.
We have the right to a clean, healthy, sustainable environment.
