Research on Farmer Choice for Environmental Land Management Offer Combinations

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Defra awarded a contract to Eunomia Research & Consulting Ltd.

for a research package assessing the viability of multiple offers across Countryside Stewardship Plus and the Sustainable Farming Incentive.

The assessment covered environmental considerations of carrying out multiple standards on the same land, logistical requirements for combining those standards, legal and/or regulatory constraints that could prevent them from being carried out together, and user needs—including the extent to which farmers and landowners are likely to engage in stacking certain standards together, what motivates them to do so, and the intervention points where interventions could be targeted to help leverage those motivations.

The contract value was AUD 68,507.