Posted on 01/08/2020 9:08:55 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
EU farming subsidies are to be replaced by fund linked to efforts to combat climate change, the environment secretary is set to announce at a conference today.
Speaking at the Oxford Farming Conference, Theresa Villiers will confirm that the Government’s landmark Agriculture Bill will be introduced this month to Parliament, which will replace the Common Agricultural Policy.
She is expected to say the new scheme "will be one of the most important environmental reforms for 40 years" and set the standard for climate change action across the world.
The bill will put forward a new approach where farmers and land managers are rewarded with public money for ‘public goods’ – such as enhancing biodiversity, tackling climate change and raising standards of animal welfare.
The new funding will come after a seven-year transition period for farmers, who will see Direct Payments gradually phased out.
Ms Villiers will say: “We want our new scheme to deliver value for money as well as boosting sustainable productivity to support farmers in their work of feeding the nation.
“Our proposals for Environmental Land Management will be one of the most important environmental reforms for 40 years.
“The process we are about to embark on will, I hope, provide an example to others around the world of what can be achieved if we rethink how we manage the land and produce our food.
“We have the potential to create a virtuous circle between agriculture, tackling climate change, protecting biodiversity, and securing investment in our rural economy.”
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Wow. My first questions will be: will this affect food supplies? Both in availability and cost.
According to NASA there has been zero temp rise for well over a decade. There is no climate change.
Insanity.
Food supplies and prices. I predict one will go down and the other up......
We should be sure to hike up prices for food exports to countries that do things like this once they can no longer feed themselves.
Central planning of Agriculture worked great in the USSR.
Unfortunately, humans are stupid... and history does indeed repeat itself.
After embracing Islam immigrants....now, they'll starve themselves to death.
The two belief systems, liberal/socialism/communism/radial environmentalism and fundamentalist Islam will have to reconcile with each other in the future. Most likely with Islam winning out.
Europe facing starvation as EU elites grow fat in Brussels.
Exactly. But isn’t that they way it always seem to follow with the leftists.
Looking forward to a 20 mile long convoy of manure spreaders visiting Brussels.
Gee I wonder why England wants to leave the EU.
Other countries are wanting to leave too. The EU elites want to keep their cushy jobs so will do want they can even if it wrecks country after country.
Oh, so they’re stealing farm subsidies intended to stabilize food production and supply, for some pipe dream political theory intended to ultimately reduce world population to “sustainable” levels.
Yup, that’ll fix it.
The modern “aristocracy.” Like the old aristocracies of Europe but with a modern twist — no inbred kings and queens, but a small group of self appointed bureaucrats set above the working class people.
Europe facing starvation as EU elites grow fat in Brussels.
From these comments it seems you're under the impression this is an EU scheme. In fact Villiers was announcing the UK Government's intentions for a new scheme to replace the existing EU agricultural subsidy scheme after Brexit. This is the Tory government's idea of a better way to support UK farmers than what they've been getting from the EU.
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