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Joe Tilbury

Joe Tilbury

Joe Tilbury is the Stakeholder Engagement and Communications Lead in the environmental land management tests and trials team. The tests and trials team works with farmers and land managers on the delivery of tests and trials. Doing so provides us with the evidence we need to design and deliver policies that work.

A test and trials spotlight: Weald to Waves

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Farmers and land managers participating in Weald to Waves share their experiences of taking part in tests and trials. The test is part of a wider project, led by Knepp Estate, which aims to build a wildlife corridor stretching from Ashdown Forest to the Sussex coast. Along the way, they share with us how they brought together farmers on the route to develop group agreements, management plans and funding mechanisms for the corridor.

Watch: a test and trial update from Aqualate Mere

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In this film, we return to Aqualate Mere in Staffordshire to learn more about the tests and trials experience of Aqualate Castle Holdings. Farmers in the catchment share what they learned about blending public and private finance for greater environmental good. They focused on commercial agreements between private organisations and local farmers.

Test and Trials: watch the North Cumbria Farmers Group

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We're developing schemes that reward environmental land management. To make sure that those schemes work in practice, farmers and land managers across England are putting elements of those schemes to the test. It's one of the ways though which we're carrying out co-design. In this video, the North Cumbria Farmers Group share what they've been doing to help shape the future of our schemes.

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