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Following the last major reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in 2003, the Agricultural Change and Environment Observatory Programme was launched in July 2005 to identify environmental impacts and risks arising from a changing agriculture sector. An important component of the Observatory Programme is the development of a set of indicators to help monitor emerging agricultural and environmental change. The indicators are based upon proposals from the "Environmental Monitoring Baseline Project" undertaken by CSL/CCRU in 2006. The overview page offers important background information on the Observatory programme and the monitoring framework. Each indicator comprises: i. a data sheet which provides a summary of basic information and data ii. a fact sheet which provides additional supporting information with meta data on the background and relevance to the framework and statistical and technical details on methodology and data sources. Indicators are divided into 4 groups:
Mechanisms Processes: Farm Business Processes: Farm Management Environmental Impacts

Mechanisms \| Farm Business \| Farm Management \| Environmental Impacts

Mechanisms
		Last updated
	> A1 SFP registrations	June 2007
	> A2 Value of subsidies	April 2008
	> A3 Farms in agri-environment schemes	February 2008
	> A4 Input costs	December 2008
	> A5 Product prices	December 2008

Farm Business
	> B1 Holding size	March 2009
	> B2 Farm type	March 2009
	> B3 Farm sales
	> B4 Land prices
	> B5 Rental values	June 2007
	> B6 Farm income	January 2009
	> B7 Indebtedness	February 2008
	> B8 Diversification	February 2008
	> B9 Labour profiles	December 2008
	> B10 Contracting costs	February 2008
	> B11 Crop & milk yields	October 2008
	> B12 Livestock numbers	March 2009

Farm Management
	> C1 Number & area of organic farms	July 2008
	> C2 Agricultural land use	November 2008
	> C3 Pesticide use	December 2007
	> C4 Fertiliser use	April 2008
	> C5 Pests & diseases in wheat & rape
	> C6 Populations of weed species

Environmental Impacts
	Water > DA1 Biological quality of rivers	January 2009
	> DA2 Chemical quality of rivers	January 2009
	> DA3 N & P levels in rivers	January 2009
	> DA4 Pesticides in water	December 2008
	> DA5 Water abstraction for agriculture	January 2009
	Soil > DB1 Soil phosphate
	Air quality > DC1 Ammonia emissions from agriculture	April 2008
	Climate change > DD1 Methane emissions from agriculture	April 2008
	> DD2 Nitrous oxide emissions from agriculture	April 2008
	> DD3 Energy derived from agricultural biomass	October 2008
	Biodiversity > DE1 Status of farmland BAP habitats	June 2007
	> DE2 Status of farmland BAP priority species	June 2007
	> DE3 Trends in populations of pipistrelles	April 2008
	> DE4 Trends in populations of brown hares	November 2008
	> DE5 Trends in populations of farmland birds	November 2008
	> DE6 Trends in populations of farmland butterflies	November 2008
	> DE7 Plant diversity in fields & field margins	June 2007
	> DE8 SSSI condition
	> DE9 Cover abundance of common plants
	Landscape > DF1 Landscape features	June 2007
	> DF2 New woodland planting	June 2008
	> DF3 Landscape change	August 2007

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Page last modified: 6 March 2009
Page published: June 2007


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