Founder’s Note – June 2024
With the looming general election, as well as the new SFI agreements from July, the land management sector is facing yet more change.
With the looming general election, as well as the new SFI agreements from July, the land management sector is facing yet more change.
As the election draws nearer, the three major parties have released their manifesto pledges for what they seek to implement if elected into government.
World Environment Day is hosted by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Held annually on 5 June since its inception in 1973, it presents an opportunity for a global conversation around critical environmental issues, and the solutions needed to address them.
As a digital tool, we deal with data every day. Last month, we had over 6,000 monthly active users so I wanted to share some insight into the importance of consistent data and how we see this positively impacting the future of our planet.
“It’s critical we don’t have food systems too big to fail”
In a now well-established speech in 2015, Mark Carney (ex-governor of the Bank of England) located failings around climate change not within a tragedy of the commons, but within a “Tragedy of the Horizon”.
It’s fair to say that regenerative agriculture was the catalyst that started my journey to founding Land App. I started studying regenerative agriculture 13 years ago to learn how to protect our family farm into the future.
We caught up with Harrison Anton, Farm and Environment Consultant at CLM, to discuss his work on Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG), how the sector is responding, and opportunities for the future…
Last week, our Director of Growth, Dan Geerah, hosted an excellent panel discussion with leading industry experts to discuss Countryside Stewardship, the new ELMs schemes and the ins and outs of the agricultural transition.
We know that we’re at a pivotal moment in the land management sector; I don’t need to go into detail on how climate change, economic disruptions and changing policies are impacting our day-to-day lives in unprecedented ways.