Evaluation of Agri-Environment Agreements' Contribution to Climate Change Adaptation

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The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs awarded a contract to Atkins Ltd for evaluating the contribution of agri-environment agreements to climate change adaptation.

This call-off contract from the Framework for Environmental Stewardship Monitoring and Evaluation - 24931 Lot 3 aimed to establish an integrated methodology for assessing land management schemes' contribution to climate change adaptation for biodiversity at national, landscape/catchment, and farm scales.

The evaluation considered the location of agri-environment management, options used, appropriateness of prescriptions, and scheme operation.

At the farm scale, it also assessed the contribution of agri-environment schemes to wider adaptation benefits for agriculture and people through ecosystem-based adaptation.

The contract value was AUD 47,735.