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New Woodland Creation Offer includes public goods payments

New Woodland Creation Offer includes public goods payments >More in © Tim Scrivener Farmers in England will shortly be able to apply for a new woodland creation grant which will offer top-up payments in recognition of the wider benefits of woodland to society. The England Woodland Creation Offer (EWCO), which is due to open to applications in the next few weeks, was announced as part of the England Tree Action Plan and will be administered by the Forestry Commission. It replaces the Woodland Carbon Fund grant scheme, which closed for applications in March 2021. The scheme will be funded through the Nature for Climate Fund and support the creation of more than 10,000 hectares of new woodland over its lifetime.

Low uptake of SFI pilot from tenants over viability fears

Low uptake of SFI pilot from tenants over viability fears >More in © Tim Scrivener Lack of information about how the upcoming Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme will deliver payments to farmers has caused tenants to disengage from the pilot process. The Tenant Farmers Association (TFA) has published the results of its recent agri-environment survey, which had responses from about 200 farmers, of whom 90% were wholly or predominantly reliant on tenanted land. Just 8% of the respondents had submitted an expression of interest for the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) pilot, one of three strands that will form the overall ELM programme, alongside the Local Nature Recovery and Landscape Recovery schemes.

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