by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Jan 30, 2024 | Agriculture, Land management
Agriculture and environment are devolved to the Senedd and Welsh Government and Wales has its own legislation covering both areas. In Natural Resources Wales, it also has its own regulatory body whose role it is to enforce the legislation. This was created in 2013...
by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Jan 30, 2024 | Agriculture, Land management
Agricultural pollution is a long-standing issue in Wales. In the three years prior to 2021, agricultural pollution incidents averaged three per week. More recently, agriculture has been identified by NRW as contributing 62% of the total phosphorous load to rivers and...
by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Jan 30, 2024 | Agriculture, Land management
Economics In 2021, the agriculture, forestry and fishing sector accounted for for 1.1% of total gross value-added (GVA) to the Welsh economy. This compares to, for example, tourism at 5% of Wales’s GVA, or manufacturing at 17.3%. GVA is the measure of the value...
by Seth Johnson-Marshall | May 19, 2022 | Land management
Nutrients A number of rivers in Wales are currently suffering catastrophic impacts from high levels of nutrients. These nutrients enter from two main sources: agriculture and sewage discharges. In 2021, NRW published revised assessment of monitoring data for SAC...
by Seth Johnson-Marshall | May 19, 2022 | Land management
Soil Loss The loss of soil and poor soil management present a significant impact to watercourses AND a loss of income to farmers (through loss of organic matter, compaction etc). Afonydd Cymru would like to have specific standards for soil and are working to influence...
by Seth Johnson-Marshall | May 19, 2022 | Land management
Your content goes here. Edit or remove this text inline or in the module Content settings. You can also style every aspect of this content in the module Design settings and even apply custom CSS to this text in the module Advanced settings. Slurry pollution is...
