Taking back control of agriculture: can the government deliver a Brexit dividend?

Published: March 30, 2022, 11:31 a.m.

b'In 2017, Michael Gove called Brexit an \\u2018unfrozen moment\\u2019 which would allow ministers to address long-standing criticisms of the EU Common Agricultural Policy and free the government to radically reform the way it supports farmers.\\n\\nSo will redirecting England\\u2019s \\xa32.4 billion annual farm budget deliver a substantial Brexit dividend? Will reforms bring about everything farmers, environmentalists and taxpayers expect? And can those changes be delivered while the sector is coping with labour shortages, rising energy prices, new trade deals and post-Brexit regulatory changes? And how can policy on food, farming and land use help the government meet its ambitions on net zero, levelling up and tackling obesity?\\n\\nWith post-Brexit agricultural reforms the subject of a new IfG report, Agriculture after Brexit: Replacing the CAP, this event will discussed what needs to be done to ensure a better future for food, farming and land use in England.\\n\\nOn the panel:\\n\\nJonathan Baker, Deputy Director in the Future Farming and Countryside Programme at Defra\\nMinette Batters, President of the National Farmers\\u2019 Union (NFU)\\nSue Pritchard, Chief Executive of The Food Farming & Countryside Commission (FFCC)\\nBeccy Speight, Chief Executive of the Royal Society of the Protection of Birds (RSPB)\\nThis event was chaired by Joe Marshall, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Government.\\n\\nFollow @ifgevents\\n#IfGBrexit'