As part of the excellent Land Management 2.0 webinar series Defra's Catherine Boyd, stakeholder lead for ELMs, presents a synopsis of how it is intended to work.
Following a great deal of hours spent on consultation and meetings, with many individuals in the farming community giving up their time freely towards reaching a consensus, alongside a range of stakeh
One of the key research questions of this test & trial was to develop a 'payment by results' approach which could operate on commons as well as home farms. Originally intended as a smaller element of
Whilst a key objective of this Test & Trial was to look at Land Management Plans and payment methods for commons what was quite clear, as soon as you start engaging with anyone involved in commons agr