The Campaign for the Farmed Environment (CFE) is a ground-breaking industry initiative which will see farmers adopt a voluntary approach to environmental land management.
The voluntary campaign will target land managers in England's main arable growing areas and aims to extend and enhance the environmental benefits provided by set-aside and existing stewardship schemes in three key areas, these being farmland birds, farm wildlife and protecting soil and water.
All the campaign partners are encouraging famers and landowners to adopt, or continue, management practices which will help meet national targets to:
Ensure that entry level scheme environmental stewardship agreements contain the right options in the right places to create important habitats for wildlife and protect soil and water resources on farms.
Retain 179,000 hectares of uncropped land across England and improve the management of at least a third of this land to support habitats for birds, insects and mammals.
Increase the current national level of voluntary environmental management by at least 30,000 hectares.
The campaign brings together the following farming organisations and advisory bodies, NFU, CLA, AIC, FWAG, GWCT, LEAF, AICC and CAAV, working in partnership with Defra, Natural England, the Environment Agency and the RSPB. Creating the Greenest County is supporting and promoting the initative.
For more information, please call 01223 874580 or email elizabeth.ranelagh@cfeonline.org.uk
