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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Post‐Brexit Policies for a Resilient Arable Farming Sector in England
Contributor:
Vigani, Mauro;
Urquhart, Julie;
Black, Jasmine Elizabeth;
Berry, Robert;
Dwyer, Janet;
Rose, David Christian
Published:
Wiley, 2021
Published in:
EuroChoices, 20 (2021) 1, Seite 55-61
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1111/1746-692x.12255
ISSN:
1478-0917;
1746-692X
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:title>Summary</jats:title><jats:p>With the withdrawal of the <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">UK</jats:styled-content> from the European Union and increasing pressures from climate change, English arable farming resilience is in a fragile position. Most Brexit impact assessments have focused on quantitative analysis, however here we take a qualitative approach to assess how future trade agreements could impact the resilience of the <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">UK</jats:styled-content> arable farming system. We discuss the main strategies that are currently taken by English arable farmers to improve resilience using evidence from a large‐scale survey in the East of England. Using information from a multi‐stakeholder workshop, we look at arable farming resilience in three forms characteristic of the farming system; namely, robustness, adaptability and transformability and how these relate to and are potentially influenced by three different Brexit trade scenarios. Stakeholders’ recommendations suggest that a ‘hard’ no‐deal scenario will require policies for social protection of farmers in more vulnerable rural areas, while in a ‘softer’ scenario a ‘public money for public goods’ policy could be implemented effectively by learning from previous environmental schemes. Nevertheless, resilience can be enhanced only by addressing structural and policy issues, such as generational renewal, advice and extension, tenancy duration limits and smarter <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">PPP</jats:styled-content> regulations, regardless of what post‐Brexit deal with the <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">EU</jats:styled-content> finally emerges.</jats:p>