Farming and countryside planning and strategy

Guidance and services

• Support for rural development: Wales Rural Network
  Wales Rural Network exists to promote the exchange of expertise in rural development.
• Sustainable Farming Scheme
  Details of the development of a new Sustainable Farming Scheme commencing in 2025.
• Agriculture: summer update 2022
  Includes important dates, changes to rules and topical advice.
• Agriculture: spring update 2022
  Includes important dates, changes to rules and topical advice.
• Agriculture: winter 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.
• Co-design for a Sustainable Farming Scheme for Wales: privacy notice
  This notice informs you about the Welsh Government’s use of the information provided when you register your interest in this scheme.

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 2020 to 2021
  Report
  Statistical information on the areas and number of smallholdings held by smallholding authorities.
• 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).
• Sustainable Farming Scheme: outline proposals for 2025
  Report
  This document will form the basis of our next phase of Co-design. We will be seeking the views of farmers and wider rural stakeholders.