ARCHIVE: Observatory Programme Indicators

Following the last major reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in 2003, the Agricultural Change and Environment Observatory Programme was launched in July 2005 to identify environmental impacts and risks arising from a changing agriculture sector.

An important component of the Observatory Programme is the development of a set of indicators to help monitor emerging agricultural and environmental change. The indicators are based upon proposals from the "Environmental Monitoring Baseline Project" undertaken by CSL/CCRU in 2006.

The overview page offers important background information on the Observatory programme and the monitoring framework.

Each indicator comprises:

i. a data sheet which provides a summary of basic information and data.

ii. a fact sheet which provides additional supporting information with meta data on the background and relevance to the framework and statistical and technical details on methodology and data sources.

Indicators are divided into 4 groups:

  • Mechanisms
  • Processes: Farm Business
  • Processes: Farm Management
  • Environmental Impacts

Mechanisms | Farm Business | Farm Management | Environmental Impacts

Mechanisms
A1 SFP registrations May 2010
A2 Value of subsidies May 2010
A3 Farms in agri-environment schemes May 2010
A4 Input costs February 2011
A5 Product prices February 2011
Farm Business
B1 Holding size February 2010
B2 Farm type February 2010
B3 Farm sales  
B4 Land prices  
B5 Average rents March 2011
B6 Farm income February 2011
B7 Indebtedness February 2008
B8 Diversification February 2011
B9 Labour profiles January 2011
B10 Contracting costs September 2010
B11 Crop & milk yields January 2011
B12 Livestock numbers October 2010
Farm Management
C1 Number & area of organic farms August 2010
C2 Agricultural land use December 2010
C3 Pesticide use May 2010
C4 Fertiliser use March 2011
C5 Pests & diseases in wheat & rape  
C6 Populations of weed species  
Environmental Impacts
Water
DA1 Biological quality of rivers September 2010
DA2 Chemical quality of rivers September 2010
DA3 N & P levels in rivers September 2010
DA4 Pesticides in water October 2010
DA5 Water abstraction for agriculture September 2010
Soil
DB1 Soil phosphate  
Air quality
DC1 Ammonia emissions from agriculture October 2010
Climate change
DD1 Methane emissions from agriculture February 2011
DD2 Nitrous oxide emissions from agriculture February 2011
DD3 Energy derived from agricultural biomass September 2010
Biodiversity
DE1 Status of farmland BAP habitats July 2010
DE2 Status of farmland BAP priority species November 2010
DE3 Trends in populations of pipistrelles September 2010
DE4 Trends in populations of brown hares November 2008
DE5 Trends in populations of farmland birds January 2011
DE6 Trends in populations of farmland butterflies February 2011
DE7 Plant diversity in fields & field margins June 2007
DE8 SSSI condition November 2010
DE9 Cover abundance of common plants  
Landscape
DF1 Landscape features October 2009
DF2 New woodland planting July 2010
DF3 Landscape change August 2007

Page last modified: 23 March, 2011
Page published: June, 2007

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