Sustainable Land Management

West Midlands agriculture occupies over 70% of the region’s land; a total of 26,000 farm holdings on 950,000ha., contributing £952m to GVA. Land managers have an important role maintaining the landscape, which is often taken for granted, through producing crops and maintaining the environment. Land on the urban-rural fringe, offers good opportunities to use land in an innovative ways: recreation, composting green waste. The evidence base below provides more insights.

Other organisations produce a range of evidence and links to their websites are available from the Related Links section to the right side of the page. The West Midlands Regional Observatory has a searchable resource database containing contributions from many organisations.

Regional Forestry Economic Baseline for the West Midlands - November 2009 - PDF - 2mb

Evaluation and Re-drafting of the West Midland Farming and Food Delivery Plan Stage 1 - PDF - 3mb

Evaluation and Re-drafting of the West Midlands Farming and Food Delivery Plan Stage 2 - PDF - 3mb

Sustainable Land Management (2008) - PDF - 348kb

Natural Assets Case Studies brochure (2008) - PDF - 1mb

Common Agricultural Policy Reform and Land Based Economy Futures Study (2008 - PDF - 1mb)

Common Agricultural Policy Reform and Land-Based Economy Futures Study – Executive Summary (2008) - PDF - 176kb

West Midlands Non Food Crops Opportunity Mapping Study (2007) (Opens in new window) - PDF - 2mb

The Environmental Economy of Shropshire - An Economic Profile (2006) - PDF - 840kb (Opens in new window) - PDF - 641kb

Developing the Rural Environmental Economy of the West Midlands (2005) - PDF - 1mb (Opens in new window) - PDF - 641kb

Developing the Rural Environmental Economy of the West Midlands – Summary (2006) - PDF - 506kb

Informal Recreation in the West Midlands (2003) (Opens in new window) - PDF - 3mb