WWF Cymru survey exhibits that 60% of rural Wales agree that Welsh Authorities help ought to solely be given to farmers actively working to guard nature and local weather.
As the brand new Agriculture Invoice reaches the Senedd this week a brand new survey commissioned by WWF Cymru has discovered that folks throughout rural Wales have demonstrated help for a significant change in how Welsh farmers are supported.
The survey of 1,000 respondents carried out by Opinion Analysis Providers( ORS), the primary of its variety to comprehensively survey residents of rural Wales, reveals that 96% of residents in rural Wales agree that Welsh farmers have an necessary position to play in defending nature and 88% agree that farmers have an necessary position in tackling local weather change.
On the similar time, solely round a 3rd of residents (34%) agree that farmers are already doing sufficient for nature and the bulk (60%) agree that authorities monetary help ought to solely be given if farmers make adjustments to guard nature and the local weather.
That is in in stark distinction to the present area-based funds and is a well timed perception into what folks in rural Wales suppose farming coverage needs to be delivering.
Rhian Brewster, Head of Communications at WWF Cymru mentioned;
“These outcomes come at a essential second for Wales with the arrival of the Agriculture Invoice within the Senedd. This survey exhibits that most individuals throughout rural Wales wish to change the way in which our meals system works, from farm to fork.
We, together with a excessive proportion of residents in north, west and mid Wales, agree that farmers ought to solely obtain monetary help from the federal government in the event that they make adjustments to guard nature and deal with local weather change. WWF Cymru believes we have to help Welsh farmers to undertake agroecology, together with regenerative farming as an method which can construct a greater future for folks, nature, and local weather. This important transformation can solely be achieved by daring adjustments to agriculture funds to help farmers to make this modification. The brand new Agriculture Invoice provides us a as soon as in a technology probability to set Wales on a path to a extra sustainable future.”
The charity urges Welsh Authorities to make sure the brand new Agriculture Invoice incentivises farmers via the Sustainable Farming Scheme to undertake nature and local weather pleasant farming regenerative practices.
That is the primary survey of its variety and was undertaken, by WWF Cymru, to raised perceive rural peoples’ views on meals and farming forward of main legislative selections within the Senedd.
