NFU flooding manifesto welcomed - but damaging practices must be reformed

Press release
NFU warns of the link between flooding and climate change in its new flooding manifesto.
  Published:  26 Jan 2017    |      1 minute read

Responding to the NFU’s flooding manifesto, which was unveiled today, Friends of the Earth climate campaigner Guy Shrubsole said:

"The NFU is absolutely right to warn of the dangers of increased flooding driven by climate change, and right to call for better long-term flood planning by the Government.

"We agree that farmers and landowners should be paid to provide natural flood measures, like planting trees or allowing fields to flood to keep the water out of front rooms.

"But the NFU must also recognise that some current publicly subsidised land-use practices - like overgrazing on uplands and intensive grouse moor management - can actively make flooding worse. This is unacceptable, and the NFU needs to embrace change on these."

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Notes to editors:

1. NFU launches flooding manifesto.

 

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