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Defra’s Landscape Recovery programme
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What is Landscape Recovery?
Landscape Recovery is one of DEFRA’s three Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes, alongside the Sustainable Farming Incentive and Higher Tier Countryside Stewardship. Together these form a key part of the Government’s Agricultural Transition plan, which is moving farm support away from direct payments and towards ‘public money for public goods’. This will mean supporting farmers to enhance the environment and reduce carbon emissions, while producing food within the capacity of the land.
Landscape Recovery
Co-desIgned
Landscape Recovery (LR) offers farmers and land managers the opportunity to co-design a bespoke set of agreements themselves, for a whole landscape. The scheme has four main distinguishing features:
1. Large-scale: the scheme is designed to deliver outcomes that require collaborative action across a whole landscape.
2. Long-term: the scheme will support outcomes that take a long time to deliver, such as soil carbon sequestration or habitat restoration.
3. Bespoke: the scheme can fund activities that are specific to the locality.
4. Blended funding: projects are required to attract private investment to supplement state support.
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