Agri-environment schemes have been around for decades, aiming to improve habitats, protect nature, boost soil health, cut pollution, and help fight climate change. There are more than 40 public and 35 ...

Farmed environments are essential links in the food production chain. Not only do they offer sustenance to a growing human population, but these areas also have a high nature value, they help improve ...

Between 2016 and 2018, researchers recorded species richness of 12 bird, insect, and plant taxonomic groups across flowering fields under agri-environmental schemes-- management schemes aimed at ...

A new comprehensive survey has highlighted an urgent need to enable more farmers and contractors to revive England’s hedgerows to meet national restoration targets. While agri-environment schemes (AES ...

Agri-environment schemes can significantly increase local bird and butterfly populations without damaging food production, a long-term research project has found. Scientists spent a decade intensively ...

The agri-environmental schemes to improve biodiversity in Dutch agricultural landscapes are not effective. A profound study which compares fields with management agreements with common managed fields, ...

Research on the effectiveness of Agri-Environmental Schemes predominantly examines their environmental impact, with limited attention to economic aspects. Here is a different approach. Few studies ...

Ireland today unveiled a new €1.5bn Agri-Climate Rural Environment Scheme that it says is ‘user friendly for farmers’ and will deliver ‘broader environmental and biodiversity benefits’. But the ...

Conservation management around the margins of agriculture fail to protect butterfly species at greatest risk from the intensification of farming, a new study says. Conservation management around the ...

A new study published by researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew has concluded that caffeine—a naturally occurring compound found in the nectar of many ...