Land Management Business Resilience

Over the last few years, Climate East Midlands has been working with businesses, taking a risk management and business continuity approach to building their resilience to severe weather and climate change. The Land Management Business Resilience project (LaMB) is a complementary project that aims to develop support for the land management sector.  It is funded by the Environment Agency and is being delivered in partnership with the Defra-funded Farming Advice Service.

Agriculture is an important sector in the East Midlands. The region is a major food provider for the UK, containing large areas of prime agricultural land.

To support farmers and land managers in the East Midlands to prepare for severe weather and climate change, the project includes:

Climate East Midlands has published a guide called "Weathering the Storm – Saving and Making Money in a Changing Climate" for farmers and land managers. Download the guide here.

We launched the guide at a series of six half-day soil management workshops, held in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire in August 2013. The workshops were hosted on farms, and delivered in partnership with the Farming Advice Service and the Environment Agency. We also ran a soil management workshop in Northamptonshire in April 2014, in collaboration with the NFU and Northamptonshire County Council.

Further soil management workshops took place in March 2015 in Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Northamptonshire. These have been summarised in a news story.

A summary of key messages from the Soil Management workshops is available to download.

Climate East Midlands has also provided internal training for Environment Agency officers, to inform them of the support available to farmers and land managers on building business resilience to severe weather and climate change. This will help them to advise farmers and land managers and signpost to relevant information and support.