News and communications

UK scales up support for sustainable, climate-resilient farming practices, and improved access to clean water in climate-vulnerable countries.

• Updated: 9 December 2023

Livestock reintroduced and wildflowers increased as Cheshire nature reserve is extended

• Updated: 4 September 2023

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly announced a £55 million Propcom+ contract and £2.89 million grant, which aims to support the transformation of Nigeria’s rural economy.

• Updated: 3 August 2023

More than £168m to drive innovation, improve productivity and support animal health and welfare through greener equipment, robotics and automation.

• Updated: 21 February 2023

Environment Secretary Thérèse Coffey delivered a speech to the NASDA Conference in Virginia

• Updated: 15 February 2023

Government speeds up Sustainable Farming Incentive roll-out with new sets of paid actions to support food production and environmentally responsible farming.

• Updated: 26 January 2023

More support for farmers to help them with the impact of ongoing dry weather.

• Updated: 17 August 2022

The UK at pre-COP in Milan: a busy programme of events on climate and sustainability

• Updated: 27 September 2021

A pioneering new fund to drive private investment in nature and tackle climate change has been awarded to 27 projects

• Updated: 14 July 2021

Braunton tenant-farmer Andrew Cooper has been ordered to pay more than £30,000 for ploughing historically important fields linked to prehistoric and Second World War periods.

• Updated: 21 June 2021

Consultation launched on how to cut ammonia emissions from the use of solid urea fertilisers to better protect human health and the environment

• Updated: 5 November 2020

Representatives from the agriculture and farming industries took part in a Q&A session to discuss the opportunities and challenges faced by the sector in Wales

• Updated: 23 July 2020

The four-day online event comes as the UK Government protects the incomes of nearly 10,000 people employed in the rural economy in Wales

• Updated: 20 July 2020

A network of 20,000 farms are taking action to drive down water pollution and protect the environment

• Updated: 14 October 2019

Organisations from Wales and Whitehall to join forces on stand C221 during centenary event

• Updated: 22 July 2019

A pioneering project looking into whether temporarily flooding agricultural land around the Humber could benefit farmers and wildlife is appealing for land.

• Updated: 23 May 2019

Farmers due their 2018 Countryside Stewardship advance or Basic Payment Scheme payment will receive bridging payments in April.

• Updated: 8 April 2019

Natural England in partnership with the Environment Agency, Defra and local water companies unveils this year’s champion young farmers

• Updated: 2 April 2019

Popular “Payment by Results” pilot scheme is granted two years of further funding

• Updated: 2 August 2018

A fund opens on 1 September for groups of farmers and organisations to bid for cash for large scale environmental projects in their area.

• Updated: 31 August 2017