{"id":736,"date":"2020-01-20T05:36:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T10:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/?p=736"},"modified":"2020-08-07T07:28:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T12:28:05","slug":"united-kingdom-to-embark-on-agricultural-revolution-in-break-from-eu-farm-subsidies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2020\/01\/20\/united-kingdom-to-embark-on-agricultural-revolution-in-break-from-eu-farm-subsidies\/","title":{"rendered":"United Kingdom to embark on \u2018agricultural revolution\u2019 in break from EU farm subsidies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-20-at-5.31.49-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-737\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-20-at-5.31.49-AM-1024x872.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"829\" height=\"706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-20-at-5.31.49-AM-1024x872.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-20-at-5.31.49-AM-300x255.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-20-at-5.31.49-AM-768x654.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-20-at-5.31.49-AM.png 1278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A significant environmental benefit of Brexit and model for other countries: rational, environmentally sustainable agriculture:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After the United Kingdom leaves the European Union at the end of the month, it will sever ties with Europe\u2019s farm subsidy policies\u2014and to many researchers, that is a good thing. This week, the U.K. government proposed radical changes to \u00a33 billion a year in agricultural spending that will focus the money on benefits to climate, ecosystems, and the public.<\/p>\n<p>Under the bill, introduced to Parliament this week and expected to become law within a few months, farmers will be given subsidies not simply for cultivating land\u2014the current EU system\u2014but for delivering \u201cpublic goods.\u201d These include sequestering carbon in trees or soil, enhancing habitat with pollinator-friendly flowers, and improving public access to the countryside. To ease the transition, direct subsidies will be phased out over 7 years beginning in 2021, and the new payments for environmental services will be tested in pilot projects.<\/p>\n<p>After the destruction and starvation of World War II, European tariffs helped protect farmers from foreign competition and subsidies boosted their yields. \u201cIt was just about production, it didn\u2019t matter what you did to the environment,\u201d says Ian Bateman, an environmental economist at the University of Exeter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2020\/01\/united-kingdom-embark-agricultural-revolution-break-eu-farm-subsidies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Kingdom to embark on \u2018agricultural revolution\u2019 in break from EU farm subsidies<\/a> (Science)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A significant environmental benefit of Brexit and model for other countries: rational, environmentally sustainable agriculture: After the United Kingdom leaves the European Union at the end of the month, it will sever ties with Europe\u2019s farm subsidy policies\u2014and to <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2020\/01\/20\/united-kingdom-to-embark-on-agricultural-revolution-in-break-from-eu-farm-subsidies\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}