Farming and countryside planning and strategy

Guidance and services

• Support for rural development
  We promote the exchange of expertise in rural development.
• Co-design for a Sustainable Farming Scheme for Wales
  A programme to explore proposals for the Sustainable Farming Scheme
• Agriculture: winter update 2021
  Includes important dates, changes to rules and topical advice.
• Agriculture: summer update 2021
  Includes important dates, changes to rules and topical advice.
• Agriculture: spring update 2021
  Includes important dates, changes to rules and topical advice.
• Agriculture and Horticulture Survey: privacy notice
  Explains how we use personal data collected by the Agriculture and Horticulture Survey.
• Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) request for views: summary and response
  In 2018, there was a request for views on the future of the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB).
• Amaeth Cymru: the future of agriculture in Wales
  Our vision for agriculture, the current status, and what we will do to achieve that vision.
• Subscribe to Wales Rural Network News round-up
  Sign up to our email newsletters, for the latest news, updates and policies.

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• Resilience review of agricultural shows: our response
  Report
  Our response to the recommendations in the Resilience review of agricultural shows.
• Resilience review of agricultural shows
  Report
  Resilience of agriculture shows report, commissioned as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
• Local authority smallholdings: annual report 2019 to 2020
  Report
  Statistical information on the areas and number of smallholdings held by smallholding authorities.
• Local authority smallholdings: annual report 2018 to 2019
  Report
  Statistical information on the areas and number of smallholdings held by smallholding authorities.
• Local authority smallholdings: annual report 2017 to 2018
  Report
  Statistical information on the areas and number of smallholdings held by smallholding authorities.
• Impacts of alternative post-Brexit trade agreements on UK agriculture
  Policy and strategy
  We are republishing part of the text from the original Brexit and our Land consultation, as there was a minor error in the original document relating to the labelling of a figure.
• Brexit and our land: our response
  Policy and strategy
  Our response to the consultation into support for Welsh farming after Brexit.
• Brexit and our land consultation: myth-busting facts
  Policy and strategy
  A list of common misunderstandings about the consultation and the proposals we have made.
• Open letter regarding support for Welsh farming after Brexit
  Policy and strategy
  Cabinet secretary Lesley Griffiths writes about the Brexit and Our Land consultation.
• Roundtable Wales (group advising on rural affairs and Brexit)
  Policy and strategy
  Stakeholders from across the rural sector looking at the effects of the EU exit.
• Agriculture in Wales
  Report
  Evidence about the contribution and condition of the Welsh agricultural sector.
• Report into agri-insurance for disasters and severe weather
  Report
  Recommends options for subsidised severe weather insurance for farmers.
• Options for a new integrated natural resource monitoring framework for Wales
  Report
  Recommendations to improve the use and sharing of natural resource evidence and data.
• Climate change: land use review
  Report
  A review of how agriculture and rural land use can reduce climate change and adapt to it.
• Climate change: land use report
  Report
  Scientific evidence and analysis of how agriculture and rural land use can reduce climate change and adapt to it.
• Review of agricultural education: report
  Report
  An independent review of agricultural further education and how it supports farming.
• Review of the dairy sector in Wales
  Report
  Independent recommendations to support the dairy industry.
• Review of resilience of farming: final report
  Report
  Independent recommendations to improve the performance and productivity of farming.
• Review of resilience of farming: ministerial response
  Public response
  What we plan to do in response to recommendations to improve the performance and productivity of farming.
• Review of resilience of farming: interim report
  Report
  Initial feedback into improving the performance and productivity of farming.
• Options to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural activity
  Report
  Research into how agriculture can reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
• Understanding farmer motivations: very small and small farms
  Report
  Explores the evidence around challenges faced by economically small farms. These range from leaving the EU and future change to farm support.
• Sustainable Farming Scheme: co-design of future farming
  Report
  Insight, feedback and considerations for developing the proposed Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS).
• Co-design for a Sustainable Farming Scheme for Wales: privacy notice
  Policy and strategy
  This notice informs you about the Welsh Government’s use of the information provided when you register your interest in this scheme.