The Environmental Effectiveness of the Countryside Stewardship scheme; establishing a baseline agreement monitoring sample. ESME Framework 24931: Lot1 call off

The aim of this contract is to establish a baseline at the agreement level, against which the environmental effectiveness of Countryside Stewardship (CS), in terms of achieving the priority scheme objectives and synergies across objectives, can be assessed through subsequent resurvey. This work will provide evidence on the quality of the implementation of agreements. It will also underpin further work to evaluate the environmental impact of schemes beyond the agreement scale, e.g. to input to modelling at larger spatial scales. This is a call off from Environmental Stewardship Monitoring and Evaluation Framework.