Farming for the Future Programme

Hilary Benn launched The Future of our Farming (PDF 1.7MB) at the Royal Show on 9 July 2009 - a leaflet for the farming community outlining our shared aims for and actions towards achieving a thriving and environmentally sustainable farming industry.

Discuss Resilience and Competitiveness of the UK Agricultural Industry - open for comment from 11 November until 23 December 2009

The Farming for the Future Programme is designed to contribute to delivering our vision for English farming in 2020 in which the farming sector is: profitable in the marketplace, continuing to produce the majority of the food we consume; making a positive net environmental contribution, notably in respect of climate change, but also more widely; and managing the landscape and the natural assets that underlie it.

The programme is aimed at delivering the behaviour change necessary to realise that vision, at the same time setting a new direction for the relationship between Government and industry.

The programme is made up of the following workstreams:

Strategy and Stakeholder Engagement
The Skills for Farming Project
Agricultural Industry Resilience
Climate Change Mitigation
Anaerobic Digestion
UK/China Collaboration on Sustainable Agriculture
Climate Change Adaptation
Nutrient Management
The Environmental Management Systems project
Cross Compliance (including Set-aside)

Page last modified: 11 November 2009
Page published: 4 February 2008