Rural Affairs

Map of what the system would look like

Key Sustainable Farming and Food

PSA 5

Deliver more customer-focused, competitive and sustainable farming and food industries and secure further progress via CAP and WTO negotiations in reducing CAP trade-distorting support.
Sustainable Rural Communities

PSA 4

Reduce the gap in productivity between the least well performing quartile of rural areas and the English median by 2008, demonstrating progress by 2006, and improve the accessibility of services for people in rural areas.
Natural Resource Protection

PSA 3

Care for our natural heritage, make the countryside attractive and enjoyable for all, and preserve biological diversity by:-
Bulletreversing the long-term decline in the number of farmland birds by 2020, as measured annually against underlying trends;
Bulletbringing into favourable condition by 2010 95% of all nationally important wildlife sites
Defra Public Service Agreements (PSAs)
Grants for customers Agriculture and Food industry Regeneration and Development Rural Regeneration Environmental Land Management and Natural Resource Protection
Core funding Core funding for agriculture and food Core funding for capacity building especially in the rural voluntary and community sector Core funding for local delivery arrangements for the above

Page last modified: 19 May, 2005
Page published: 2 March, 2004

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