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Defra's new farm payment scheme shouldn't hold back private markets for nature

James Elliott, Green Alliance

11 March 2021 • 5 min read

Integrating both public and private funding to reward farmers for carrying out public goods may reap the greatest environmental outcomes, explains Green Alliance's James Elliott

The rapid decline of nature in the UK isn't just bad for the environment, it's undermining our economic prosperity, as the Treasury's recent Dasgupta Review on the economics of biodiversity and research...

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