Environmental Land Management Schemes
Defra have introduced 3 new schemes that will pay farmers and land owners to carry out environmental land management.
They are:
- Sustainable Farming Incentive
- Local Nature Recovery
- Landscape Recovery
The Sustainable Farming Incentive will reward farmers for producing public goods on their land. It will pay for actions that can have benefits anywhere in the country.
You’ll get paid to carry out a set of actions to:
- reduce levels of sediment, nutrients and chemical pollution in water
- reduce flooding, erosion and run-off
- decrease greenhouse gas emissions
- improve carbon storage, water storage and biodiversity
Piloting of Sustainable Farming Incentive is underway ahead of its launch in 2022
Local Nature Recovery is a scheme that pays for locally-specific actions to benefit the environment and climate.
The scheme will pay for actions that support local nature recovery and deliver local environmental priorities. This will include:
- creating or managing and restoring natural habitats
- natural flood management
- rights of way navigation and recreation infrastructure
- education infrastructure, events and services
The Landscape Recovery scheme will support landscape and ecosystem recovery through long-term projects, such as:
- restoring wilder landscapes in places where it’s appropriate
- large-scale woodland creation and restoration
- peatland and salt marsh restoration
The scheme will begin piloting around 10 projects in 2022, and launch in 2024.
