Forum Brief: Haskins review
Policy Consultation 11 November 2003
Lord Haskins has set out plans for a radical overhaul of the way the government delivers rural services.
Forum Brief: Rural policies
Policy Consultation 5 November 2003
Environment secretary Margaret Beckett has heralded an end of the "one size fits all" policy for rural England.
Forum Brief: Common Agricultural Policy
Policy Consultation 29 October 2003
The government's consultation on how to implement the recently-agreed reforms to the Common Agricultural Policy closed this week.
NFU to give subsidy verdict
Press Review 27 October 2003
Forum Brief: Vet shortages
Policy Consultation 23 October 2003
The government has been warned by MPs that a shortage of vets with livestock experience could hamper the response to any future disease outbreak amongst farm animals.
Forum Brief: GM Tests
Policy Consultation 16 October 2003
GM crops could be potentially harmful to the environment, scientific trials ordered by the government have found.
Forum Brief: Rural housing
Policy Consultation 15 October 2003
Sir Ewen Cameron, chairman of the Countryside Agency, has argued that tackling the shortage of affordable housing in the countryside is crucial in order to create sustainable rural communities.
Forum Brief: GM crops
Policy Consultation 14 October 2003
Genetically modified crops may not remain self-contained, according to a government study published on Monday.
Gill resigns as farmers' chief
Press Review 7 October 2003
Forum Brief: House building
Policy Consultation 22 September 2003
The Campaign to Protect Rural England has dismissed claims that housebuilders are running out of land to use.
Forum Brief: Farm workers
Policy Consultation 19 September 2003
A committee of MPs has blamed supermarkets for encouraging the illegal use of cheap immigrant and criminal farm workers.
Forum Brief: Rural broadband
Policy Consultation 11 September 2003
More than half a million prospective rural broadband subscribers could be losing out because of the lack of available coverage, according to the Countryside Agency.
Forum Brief: Rural housebuilding
Policy Consultation 10 September 2003
Building houses on the countryside is the best way to defend rural land, an expert from English Nature has said.
Forum Brief: Farming
Policy Consultation 9 September 2003
The architect of the government's farming reforms has revealed he wants to encourage people to "be more like the French".
Forum Brief: Footpaths
Policy Consultation 8 September 2003
A third of Britain's footpaths are almost impassable, the Ramblers Association has warned.
