Author: Lucy Wilson
Land use change from agriculture to semi-natural land uses is crucial if we are to meet challenging targets for biodiversity, woodland and water set out in Defra’s 25 Year Environment Plan. A project delivered by ADAS and RSK@Stirling for...
Stephen Watson
It is strange times we are living in with much of the country in lockdown to Coronavirus, but food production and farming has to continue and this includes the annual application process for the Basic Payment Scheme.
Author: Aimée Dobb
Historic England’s aspiration to change the rules on VAT to encourage the re-use of historic buildings and in turn reduce carbon emissions has not been achieved in the 2020 Budget. The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak has promised £100 million...
ADAS
In light of recent updates across the UK with COVID-19, some of our upcoming events have been postponed or cancelled.
Ellie Cook
ADAS has published a paper, as part of a wider consortium1 funded by Defra, exploring possible indicators that can be used to measure sustainable intensification in farming. Data was collected from 59 English and Welsh farms, using a...
Hannah Walker
A new report from the UK’s Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has set out ambitious targets to reduce the country’s greenhouse gas emissions to ‘net zero’ by 2050. If this is achieved, it will end the UK’s...