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	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Defra plans mass cull of poultry if avian flu hits UK
		A mass cull of poultry in the UK is being prepared by Defra officials in meetings with some of the main agricultural firms involved in the clean up and disposal of hundreds of thousands of cattle, pig and sheep carcasses during the foot and mouth epidemic.
		As it plans a cull, Defra is being forced to turn for help to firms it has spent years fighting in disputes over outstanding bills of millions of pounds from the foot and mouth crisis.
		News of Defra's plans came as fears grew that the lethal H5NI form of avian flu had reached the heart of the European Union.
	www.guardian.co.uk /birdflu/story/0,14207,1600748,00.html?79%3A+Uk+news+%2D+guardian+%2D+do+not+use (948 words)

	COMMUNITY COMPOSTING UNDER THREAT FROM DEFRA
		Like other communities across the country, the villagers of Lympstone in Devon have for some years run an admirable collective composting scheme, whereby hedge clippings, vegetable waste and other organic refuse is collected from round the village, taken to a communal heap and sold back to villagers at £1.50 a bag.
		Defra adds that special consideration should be given to "small scale composting" schemes, which have "an important part to play in meeting Government targets".
		The only notable "concession" is the proposal of a separate band of charging for those at the lower end of the scale of composting, which may still result in payment by community composting groups of something in excess of £300 per annum.
	www.sovereignty.org.uk /features/eco/compost.html (665 words)

	UK PETS Scheme - sending your pet cat or dog to the United Kingdom
		DEFRA have said that the time in quarantine is expected to be about two working days.
		We recommend that you visit the DEFRA web site to obtain the application form for the import licence, information about the quarantine facilities and full details of the process.
		DEFRA does not specify a particular type or brand of microchip to be used, but recommends that it conforms to ISO (International Standards Organisation) standard 11784 or to Annex A of ISO standard 11785.
	www.maf.govt.nz /biosecurity/exports/animals/uk-pets-scheme.htm (2102 words)

	Defra, UK - Foot and Mouth Disease - Information Page
		During the course of the Foot and Mouth Outbreak 2001 MAFF and then its successor Department Defra created large volumes of data on every conceivable element of the outbreak.
		Mindful of the fact from very early on in April 2001 that the outbreak was going to be of enormous consequence to the UK, the staff of the Joint Co-ordination Centre in London took the decision to make sure that all possible data sources were captured and protected as the outbreak progressed.
		Defra believe that these estimates of additional 'at foot' animals are, however, likely to be high, because at least some of these young animals were included in their original figures.
	footandmouth.csl.gov.uk (583 words)

	The Man From DEFRA - Solution
		The Man From DEFRA was written in Inform for the first 24 Hours of Inform mini-comp, and is © 2002 by Kevan Davis.
		You are a goat, whose goal is to prevent the slaughter of yourself and your herd by health officials from DEFRA.
		(DEFRA is the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, a UK government agency.) Naturally, since you're a goat, you aren't carrying anything.
	webhome.idirect.com /%7Edswxyz/sol/defra.html (405 words)

	Defra MPV Consultation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The results of the research that DEFRA commissioned into the actual extent and nature of problems with MPVs is still awaited.
		DEFRA has commissioned research into the evidence on damage to green lanes by recreational vehicle users.
		You understand DEFRA is paying public money to understand for the first time, the real impact of vehicles on green lanes (research by Faber Maunsell) - why not wait until this research is collated and published.
	www.glass-uk.org /pages/Defra-mpv/overview.htm (2288 words)

	IBM's £400m Defra IT deal gets the green light \| The Register
		IBM has been confirmed as the IT partner for the Department of Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), in a contract worth at least £400m over the next ten years.
		Recent analysis of Defra's finances indicate that the department spends, on average, £85m per year on IT, or £850m over a decade, Myers explained.
		He also insists that Defra is not about to cut all its existing partners out of the loop: "This is about creating an internal economy of organisations that carry out development work" he said.
	www.theregister.co.uk /2004/07/21/ibm_defra_deal (568 words)

	Defra, UK - Animal health & welfare - Disease surveillance and control - Contingency Planning
		The aim of Exercise Hawthorn is to review, check and update the Government’s current contingency plans for a national outbreak of avian influenza and thereby establish the current state of readiness for such an outbreak whilst identifying improvements in the plans, instructions, structures and procedures employed in managing an outbreak.
		The exercise programme will check the contingency arrangements laid out in Defra’s Avian Influenza Contingency Plan through a series of rehearsals and exercises at strategic, tactical and operational levels and will include key operational partners.
		Where possible, it also seeks to include the associated plans of Defra’s key operational partners and those of the Devolved Administrations, in order that a co-ordinated and joined-up approach to the management of an outbreak can be demonstrated.
	www.defra.gov.uk /animalh/diseases/control/contingency/hawthorn/index.htm (497 words)

	PROJECTS
		The work addresses the principal DEFRA policy objective of developing guidelines to control P inputs from agriculture to water and the results of the project will help identify practical and cost-effective management options.
		The work addresses DEFRA’s policy objectives of better quantifying P losses from agriculture to surface waters, and the sources and routes of these losses.
		DEFRA project PE0105 has developed a prototype P Loss Indicator to estimate P movement from agricultural land to surface waters.
	www.iger.bbsrc.ac.uk /DEFRA_Phosphorus/Projects_listed_by_contractor.htm (4559 words)

	icWales - Union fury over Defra's suggestion of disease compensation scams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The claim was made during a House of Commons public accounts committee investigation of Defra's Plant Health and Seeds Inspectorate when MPs pledged to investigate anomalies in compensation.
		Head of plant health Stephen Hunter was asked by Labour MP for Birkenhead Frank Field whether arable farmers should be offered compensation as an incentive to notify diseases such as ring rot.
		Defra permanent secretary Sir Brian Bender said compensation was valid for diseases such as BSE, where there is a human health implication.
	icwales.icnetwork.co.uk /0100news/0200wales/content_objectid%3D13839769_method%3Dfull_siteid%3D50082_headline%3D-Union-fury-over-Defra-s-suggestion-of-disease-compensation-scams-name_page.html (412 words)

	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Go Wild: Features: The Defra Biodiversity Garden by Mary Reynolds
		Now she has been commissioned by Kew, in association with Defra, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, to create a new showcase garden for Go Wild.
		The biodiversity garden has been funded by Defra, Kew’s sponsoring government department, which funds a wide range of initiatives to support biodiversity in the UK, including the flagship agri-environmental schemes, Countryside Stewardship and Environmentally Sensitive Areas.
		She takes patterns and shapes which resonate with traditional ideas and forms and uses roughly hewn stones, water, mosses and wild plantings to create inspiring and spiritual spaces in her gardens.
	www.rbgkew.org.uk /gowild/features/defragarden.html (468 words)

	Defra workers out to plug pay gaps\|29Oct05\|Socialist Worker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The action was called by the PCS union in response to a trend towards separate pay negotiations for Defra proper and for its “executive agencies”, such as the Rural Payments Agency and the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science.
		The PCS is calling for greater pay coherence and for a single set of negotiations covering the whole Defra “family” to resolve the growing pay inequality.
		Reena Solanki is a Defra worker in London who came out on strike.
	www.socialistworker.co.uk /article.php?article_id=7641 (597 words)

	Countryside Alliance - News Release - Alliance says 'reform DEFRA to deliver Curry recommendations'
		The Countryside Alliance today called for DEFRA to be 'radically reformed' to enable the recommendations of the Curry Commission into the future of food and farming to be delivered.
		Mr Burge went on to suggest that the development of policy should stay within a 'slimmed down' DEFRA, but the responsibility for delivering and auditing those services should be separated out and given to a single unified executive agency.
		However, he added "But in turn, the countryside must create a 'single voice' - for example a 'rural council' - similar to the TUC and the CBI - which brings together and effectively represents all its economic and social stakeholders, to engage with Government on its future and its prosperity".
	www.countryside-alliance.org /news/02/020129crc.htm (314 words)

	About Adobe - Press Room - For Immediate Release
		Defra selected the Adobe e-Government solutions to improve the speed of interaction with its constituents.
		The Adobe solution also will create significant efficiencies for Defra employees, reducing the need for re-keying information, and streamlining internal processes such as completing timesheets and expense forms.
		Defra has therefore been actively investigating ways to simplify the application processes for a number of years," said John Kennedy, IT Programme Manager at Defra.
	www.adobe.com /aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200310/100103Defra.html (463 words)

	BBC News \| ENGLAND \| Minister defends disease strategy
		The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), had contributed to the Devon inquiry - but too late for its comments to be included in the report.
		A vet had told the inquiry that burning infected carcasses had spread the disease, and another said methods used were "medieval".
		The RSPCA said animals suffered in a way that would normally lead to prosecution, and evidence was heard of bungled culls and insensitive and belligerent Defra staff.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1626000/1626705.stm (621 words)

	CRASH EXTRA News - DEFRA revises rules - motor sports allowed..
		In what appears to be a victory for British off-road motorsport, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has revised the rules governing the use of agricultural land for motor sports.
		On March 29 DEFRA issued its original guidance on the types of non-agricultural activities allowed during the ten-month qualifying period for the new Single Payment Scheme available to farmers.
		However, DEFRA has today (Friday) revised its guidelines, switching motorsport from "activities that are inconsistent with the land being considered as remaining in agricultural use" to "activities with greater restriction".
	www.crash.net /uk/en/news_view.asp?cid=26&nid=110748 (450 words)

	Aidan Woods & Co. Solicitors: specialist criminal defence solicitors. Sexual offences to car ringing; agricultural ...
		I have an agricultural fraud case involving a dispute with DEFRA or another farming agency.
		Established in 1984 as a specialist Criminal Defence Practice Aidan Woods and Co. have experience of all aspects of criminal litigation.
		We have significant experience in dealing with serious fraud, particularly with regard to "car ringing" and currently undertake agricultural fraud cases involving subsidies and disputes with DEFRA or other farming agencies.
	www.aidanwoods.co.uk (217 words)

	Rhydybont Beef Herd True Beef Wales
		The aim of the scheme is to identify and register specialist beef herds in which no case of B.S.E has ever occurred.
		The herd must be an all beef herd, comprising of animals born in that herd (totally closed herd).
		No feed containing meat and bone meal has ever been used, feed suppliers are also monitored by D.E.F.R.A. Strict regulations and true beef herd naturally reared in the mountains of Wales to produce beef of the highest quality.
	www.rhydybont.zx3.net /defra.htm (241 words)

	Capacity Building initiative from Defra grant
		Earthwatch Institute (Europe), in partnership with the Field Studies Council and the National Academy of Sciences in Minsk, has received a £50,000 grant from Defra to support capacity building in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia.
		“I am delighted that Defra is helping to support an important initiative that will not only advance research on vital European habitats but will also increase local and regional capacity for biodiversity conservation,” said David Hillyard, Director of Programme Development at Earthwatch Institute (Europe).
		Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) announced at the launch of PECE in March 2005 that it would provide £250,000, from its Environment for Europe fund, to co-fund PECE projects in 2005/06.
	www.earthwatch.org /europe/news/defra_funding.html (847 words)

	Defra persecute anti-cull heroine Janet Hughes
		Farmers throughout Wales have a lot to thank this woman for, and it is a national scandal that her efforts are so little known or appreciated, especially by those who ought to be thanking her.
		Not surprisingly, DEFRA have never forgotten - nor forgiven - Janet for her successful efforts which stopped them in their bloody tracks.
		On Tuesday 28 January 2003, DEFRA sent round the bailiffs to Janet's house, demanding £17,000 in costs for the August 2001 court case, even though they know she is unable to meet these costs.
	www.sovereignty.org.uk /features/footnmouth/jhughes3.html (548 words)

	DEFRA AB surveillance
		The National Office of Animal Health has welcomed the publication of DEFRA’s strategy for developing and implementing a surveillance programme for antimicrobial resistance in animals for England and Wales.
		The strategy was published on 11 May, and outlines a programme of work to increase knowledge about how antimicrobial resistance emerges and spreads.
		“We look forward to working with DEFRA to progress the implementation of the plan, and to seeing how the data it generates will be used as part of a science based risk assessment process to assess the relative magnitude of the potential risks to man,” he added.
	www.noah.co.uk /pressrel/2004/20040519a.htm (520 words)

	Defra, UK - Farming and Food Science
		Defra's sustainable farming and food science is delivered within four broad scientific areas:
		In addition to the above policy and research programmes, Defra also manages several Farming and Food Science LINK Programmes.
		These enable Defra and other enables government departments and Research Councils sponsor research partnerships between the private sector and the academic science base to do research led by the private sector which is coincident with government objectives, particularly in relation to the Strategy for Sustainable Farming and Food.
	defrafarmingandfoodscience.csl.gov.uk (198 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Cornwall \| Defra dismisses sheep dip claims
		But the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said sheep dips would remain in use.
		Defra said: "The report does not provide information that would change the government's policy to allow OP sheep dips to remain on the market.
		It said, however, the government was investigating alternatives to organophosphates for controlling sheep scab, in three projects costing £1.7m.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/newsFeedXML/moreover/-/1/hi/england/cornwall/4650639.stm (224 words)

	BBKA continues to fight the proposed DEFRA cuts in funding of the National Bee Unit (News from the BBKA)
		The BBKA, BFA and BDI who are the users of the bee health service had a meeting with the top team from DEFRA and the NBU recently.
		NBU and DEFRA are convinced that they can show the ‘shook swarm’ technique is effective at controlling EFB and this hope is coupled with the long term wish to remove the use of antibiotics to control bee diseases.
		So far the letter received by MPs from DEFRA due to our campaign have not answered our questions but re-iterated the current policy.
	www.bbka.org.uk /news/news/bbka/bbka-continues-to-fight-the-Defra-cuts.shtml (719 words)

	Guidelines for hedge management to improve the conservation value of different types of hedge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Under the Hedgerows Regulations 1997, it is against the law to remove most countryside hedges without first getting the permission of your local council.
		Neither of these publications are currently on the DEFRA website.
		The Regulations have been reviewed by a group of experts, who reported on their ideas for improving the system of hedgerow protection in 1998.
	www.agroecol.co.uk /Assets/Guidelines2.htm (3498 words)

	DEFRA Economics & Statistics - Agriculture in the United Kingdom
		DEFRA Economics and Statistics - Agriculture in the United Kingdom
		To discuss the impact of CAP reform on individual farm sectors
		To update stakeholders on the current priorities and plans for Defra statistics
	statistics.defra.gov.uk /esg/publications/auk/default.asp (200 words)

	Business & Biodiversity - Publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), 2004, Draft UK National Allocation Plan for the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.
		Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), 2004, Achieving a Better Quality of Life: A Strategy for Sustainable Development for the United Kingdom.
		Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), 2000, Climate Change and UK Nature Conservation: A Review of the Impact of Climate Change on UK Species and Habitat Conservation Policy.
	www.businessandbiodiversity.org /publications.html (960 words)

	HorseIT equestrian students reference section - equine science
		Notifiable disease information from DEFRA including 'Causative agents of CEM', 'Spread of Disease', 'Symptoms', 'Prevention and Control', 'CEM is a Notifiable disease', 'Hygiene', 'Swabbing', 'Low risk & High risk mares', 'Recommendations for further Prevention', 'Recommendations for further Control of infection' and 'Microbiology'.
		Notifiable disease information from DEFRA including 'Legislation', 'Code of practice', 'Introduction', 'Symptoms and diagnosis', 'Treatment', 'EVA is a notifiable disease', 'Prevention', 'Control of infection', 'Identifying shedder stallions' and 'Vaccination'.
		Notifiable disease information from DEFRA including 'Introduction', 'Safety Precautions', 'Animals affected', 'Symptoms and lesions', 'Post Mortem', 'Spread of the disease', 'Import testing' and 'Eradication in Great Britain'.
	www.horseit.com /en/students2001/referencesection/referenceHORSEHEALTH.htm (1049 words)

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