Agri-Environment Evidence Annual Report 2021 (NERR104)

This annual report highlights recent work of the Agri-environment Evidence Programme. The nine projects featured in this report provide evidence relevant to a range of agri-environment schemes (AES) and outcomes. Projects considered environmental effectiveness of options for woodland creation and improvement, arable reversion, habitat connectivity and conservation of coastal and floodplain grazing marsh. Additionally, this report includes a baseline assessment of agri-environment agreements within their first two years and projects assessing the role of self-monitoring and counterfactuals in the evidence programme.