Counterfactual Approaches for Agri-Environment Monitoring and Evaluation in Environmental Land Management Schemes

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Defra Network eTendering Portal awarded a contract to British Trust for Ornithology for identifying counterfactual approaches to attribute environmental changes to agri-environment schemes and assess their practical application for future monitoring and evaluation in Environmental Land Management schemes (ELM).

The project involved reviewing existing counterfactual approaches, defining counterfactuals in the agri-environment context, assessing feasibility at feature/parcel-scale considering high ELM uptake, identifying research gaps, and recommending approaches for future application.

The contract value was £34,633.