Farming and countryside planning and strategy

Guidance and services

• Support for rural development
  We promote the exchange of expertise in rural development.
• Agriculture: winter update 2019
  Includes important dates, changes to rules and topical advice.
• Agriculture: summer update 2019
  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.
• Amaeth Cymru: the future of agriculture in Wales
  Our vision for agriculture, the current status, and what we will do to achieve that vision.

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

• Agriculture in Wales
  Report
  Evidence about the contribution and condition of the Welsh agricultural sector.
• 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.
• Brexit and our land: our response
  Policy and strategy
  Our response to the consultation into support for Welsh farming after Brexit.
• 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.
• Open letter regarding support for Welsh farming after Brexit
  Policy and strategy
  Cabinet secretary Lesley Griffiths writes about the Brexit and Our Land consultation.
• 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.
• Climate change: land use review
  Report
  A review of how agriculture and rural land use can reduce climate change and adapt to it.
• Local authority smallholdings: annual report 2017 to 2018
  Report
  Statistical information on the areas and number of smallholdings held by smallholding authorities.
• Options to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural activity
  Report
  Research into how agriculture can reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
• 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.
• Report into agri-insurance for disasters and severe weather
  Report
  Recommends options for subsidised severe weather insurance for farmers.
• 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.
• Review of the dairy sector in Wales
  Report
  Independent recommendations to support the dairy industry.
• Review of agricultural education: report
  Report
  An independent review of agricultural further education and how it supports farming.
• 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.