Rob Macklin, National Trust Agriculture and Food Adviser said; "The Commission's ambition to green the CAP is laudable, but the proposals announced today fall well short of meeting this. We're disappointed that taxpayers in the UK and across Europe - who pay for the CAP - are being short-changed in this time of austerity and sold greenwash. The National Trust was hoping to see proposals that delivered much more for nature and the farmed landscape and prepared us for an uncertain future of climate and food insecurity."
"Many farmers in the UK have made great progress over the last two decades integrating care for the environment into their farming practices. National Trust tenant farmers have played a key part in that transformation and we don't want to see these gains lost."