Andrew
Clark
Head of Policy Services, National Farmers Union
Andrew Clark has worked in the NFU’s headquarters since January 1993. He is the NFU’s Head of Policy Services managing a team of 28 across Economics, Environment, Science/Regulatory affairs and Legal disciplines. Prior to his appointment in March 2005, he was the NFU’s Chief Environment Adviser with specialist policy interest in biodiversity, public access and landscape conservation policy. Before joining the NFU he worked with Hertfordshire County Council as a Landscape Officer administering the County’s amenity tree planting scheme. Andrew grew up on a hop and fruit farm in Worcestershire and is a Chartered Landscape Architect.
Forum outline:
- Briefly outline the impact of the NVZ proposals for the grassland sector and especially dairy farms (for whom it has by far the most costly impact).
- Focus on changes that need to be made to the regime and the NFU’s lobbying (I hope also progress) on these priorities.
- Reflect on the wider context for water quality protection and the increasing focus on managing farms to the ‘environmental envelope’ in which they operate.
