THE Foundation for Common Land together with the Federation of Cumbria Commoners are holding a free online Update Session for Commoners and all those who work on common land issues.
Entitled 'ELM and Commons', What does the Future Hold?' is giving an update on ELM and the Defra Test and Trial for Commons.
It is taking place on Monday, December 14, starting at 7.30pm until 8.30 pm via zoom.
Places are free and anyone wishing to participate needs to register their interest.
Recently, the Foundation for Common Land wrote to the Prime Minister to warn him that the ‘Path to Sustainable Farming’ released by Defra put 14,000 farms in the Uplands and on Commons at risk and also threatened the environmental outcomes of the land they steward.
Julia Aglionby, executive director of the Foundation for Common Land, and Armathwaite farmer, said: "The farmers who look after our most precious and sensitive landscapes risk being first against the wall in this restructuring of British agriculture as Defra data shows that for Upland Farms BPS income is 104 percent of farm business income."
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