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Guardian: The government faces a new call on its diminished resources today with a recommendation from rural experts that hill farmers should be subsidised to safeguard water catchments and protect huge carbon-storing wildernesses of peat. But the Commission for Rural Communities has softened its request by suggesting that Whitehall target European funding for much of the proposed scheme, taking advantage of pending reforms in the EU's common agricultural policy. The lengthy inquiry into ......
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United Kingdom: Pay hill farmers to protect water supply and carbon sinks, report urges
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 15th, 2010
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