Delivering Public Benefits through Sustaining Active Pastoral Commoning Currently leading #OurUplandCommons Partnership Project
Great Britain
Joined May 2012
- Tweets2.5K
- Following601
- Followers1.6K
- Likes1.6K
Foundation for Common Land retweeted
Great to hear about the work @4CommonLand has been doing with commoners to support their moorland SFI applications. @JanetHughes. If you missed the webinar it will be uploaded to the website soon.
Foundation for Common Land retweeted
Commons are locally defined not global. They will survive because of people.
Great start to @iasc_commons #IASC2023 @EdenSwimmer @CCRI_UK @fesforcommons @CGIAR @ECGGroup @Cuffnells @IFPRI @4CommonLand
Foundation for Common Land retweeted
First question would be do all your livestock pay?
Sounds silly but most don’t
Often restocking increases profitability, though no one who hasn’t believes this can be true
Foundation for Common Land retweeted
And create a mechanism that pays for commoners to design their next scheme to deliver more public benefit at the end of their current schemes
Must get sign off from an ecologist
Must deliver more
But create an incentive now so we don’t fall of a cliff at end of agreements
Foundation for Common Land retweeted
Actually we already have a vision, I just want them to pay for progressive change that has public value
Something they’ve repeatedly said they want to do, then fail to deliver on
This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
Foundation for Common Land retweeted
Some points from my EAC grilling in parliament today in this 🧵. It was an hour long. So much nuance lost. My biggest concerns for food security are nutritional security for those living in poverty and the impact of climate change and biodiversity collapse on global harvests.
.@HenryDimbleby: "We live in a world where the biggest danger to our food is the way that we produce our food."
📺Watch live at bit.ly/3oltai5
ALT Henry Dimbleby, Co-founder, Leon Restaurants; and Lead, Independent review of the food system for the Government: The National Food Strategy
Foundation for Common Land retweeted
If you are a #HillFarmer #UplandFarmer in/near the #Yorkshire, #Cumbria or #Exmoor #Dartmoor regions, please consider supporting this rural research! 👍
Find out more👇
@PeterGittins1 @herdyshepherd1 @UplandAllison @hilltopfarmgirl #Upland #UplandFarming
@4CommonLand
New research is seeking hill/upland farmers in Cumbria, Yorkshire & Exmoor to give their views on ELMs, #netzero, and any barriers. The study is led by Peter Gittins from @UniversityLeeds working with FCN. To learn more & take part in an interview email [email protected]
Foundation for Common Land retweeted
As Lizzy says, we’re working with the Foundation for Common Land to help determine the carbon sequestration value on #moorland habitats and will update the Calculator. Find out more👇 farmcarbontoolkit.org.uk/202…
#fells #upland #uplandfarming #soil #soilhealth #farmingUK @4CommonLand
Moorland is coming v. soon. We are working with @4CommonLand to customize the Calculator for moorland/ upland. We are also adding some peatland nuance in the next version update ...
Foundation for Common Land retweeted
“The greatest catastrophe for nature and farming in my lifetime” so says @herdyshepherd1 from 8mins @BBCFarmingToday “By trying to get it on the cheap we are engineering less nature in the uplands”
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001jt…
Foundation for Common Land retweeted
Another lively and informative session from expert speakers and passionate commoners - worth watching the recording if you missed it! #OurUplandCommons – at Elsworth, England
Very pleased to have Becky Wilson of @FarmCO2Toolkit on our webinar talking about the new Carbon Toolkit we are developing with them and Kinniside Commoners as part of #OurUplandCommons funded by @HeritageFundUK @WestonFdn @EsmeeFairbairn
Great questions... no easy answers!
Foundation for Common Land retweeted
If you haven't signed up for our webinar please do. @EdenSwimmer will be giving an update on ELMs on common land and we have an amazing presentation by @MichelmoresLaw about the governance options for landscape scale schemes on commons.
Webinar: Governance for Multiple Outcomes at Landscape Scale on Commons foundationforcommonland.org.…
Foundation for Common Land retweeted
.@4CommonLand is a 3-year project supporting commoners, landowners, and communities on our upland commons, and in the #YorkshireDales sheep pens, an essential feature in the commoning landscape, have been reinstated to help with gathers 👇
ow.ly/IUvH50MBKvE
📸 Rob Fraser
Foundation for Common Land retweeted
We @RamblersGB @BritishCanoeing @openspacessoc @BritishHorse are really disappointed at the lack of public access opps outlined in ELMS detail today @DefraGovUK @theresecoffey defrafarming.blog.gov.uk/202…
Foundation for Common Land retweeted
ELM Prospectus now online
💠All livestock farmers (lowland & uplands) do carefully look at this if you are not already in CS or HLS grassland options
💠Improved & Low Input grassland SFI will be on offer from this summer
gov.uk/government/publicatio…
Foundation for Common Land retweeted
Not wild about camping: pannageman.craddocks.co.uk/2….
Why yesterday's judgment in the High Court, finding no right to camp on the Dartmoor commons, ought to be appealed on the basis of the history of statutory provisions for access to common land.
ALT A wild camper's tent near Black-a-Tor Copse on northern Dartmoor.
Foundation for Common Land retweeted
With #MossofManyLayers @helen_cann produced a beautiful map of Bolton Fell Moss NNR - the past, present and future of this huge mire. Here's a blog sharing her thinking:
theplacecollective.org/2022/…
@CNPPA_UoC @NECumbria @CumbriaUni @NERCscience @aalert12 @IUCNpeat
Foundation for Common Land retweeted
An amazing view of Eastnor Castle in the Malvern Hills. Our @4CommonLand lowland common Test and Trial is looking at how landowners and commoners can deliver multiple benefits at landscape scale in future ELM schemes. And sometimes I get a trip out if the Forest to talk about it
Foundation for Common Land retweeted
Agreed George - tenants (and commoners) are particularly at risk from the slow and botched release of information on ELM
….. and @theresecoffey didn’t give an adequate response to the first part of the question either
Foundation for Common Land retweeted
My leader in this week’s @FarmersGuardian, on the huge response to Tuesday night’s ELM story.
Pick up a copy of the magazine tomorrow for plenty more news and analysis 🗞
Foundation for Common Land retweeted
Farmers on Brant Fell in the Westmorland Dales are preparing to road test Defra’s Sustainable Farming Incentive Moorland Standard. Attend a free webinar hosted by @4CommonLand on 9 Nov at 7.30 pm 👇
foundationforcommonland.org.…
📸 Rob Fraser with farmer, Will Dawson and his dogs.
