Shortcuts costly

Shortcuts in the design of payment schemes to persuade farmers to undertake conservation works could be putting the potential environmental benefits at risk, a study involving researchers at The University of Nottingham has found.

Appears in issue 56

Tags: Conservation Reserve Program, Director of the University’s Rural Business Research Unit, Dr Paul Wilson, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Joint Research Institute of the European Commission’s Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), UK Research Councils’ Rural Economy and Land Use Programme