Dartmoor ELMs Test and Trial

Project Aims:

The project provides an opportunity for farmers to be engaged in the design of ELMs to identify what might work on Dartmoor and is comprised of 4 key elements:

• Explore the role that National Park Authorities could play in shaping, facilitating and delivering ELMS.
• Develop a blueprint for Land Management Plans with a specific focus on commons* and the link to the home farms and explore what advisor/guidance is required to support the development, implementation and monitoring of land management plans (at a farm, common and wider landscape-scale).
• Develop and trial a ‘Payments by Results’ approach that is capable of delivering a range of public benefit objectives and could be operated on a common as well as the home farm, across farm boundaries and at a landscape scale.
• Explore how private finance initiatives and other forms of environmental net gain* could be incorporated into ELMS at a local level

A detailed summary of the project is available on the Dartmoor Hill Farm website here

ORC's Role:

ORC have been sub-contracted, following an introductory presentation on the Public Goods Tool, to support the development of a scorecard for Public Goods delivery on home and common farms that utilises a ‘payments by results’ approach.

Project leader and partners:

Dartmoor National Park Authority (Project Lead) – Voluntary Advisory Team https://www.dartmoorhillfarmproject.co.uk/elms

All sources of funding:

Defra (ELMs)