This week gave me time to become familiar with my project. My thesis will be based around policies regarding conversational farming. To understand the importance of these policies, I began researching the need for biodiversity and how we have lost so much of it already, at both a global and national scale. Biodiversity provides ‘ecosystem services’ meaning it is valuable to the environment and to humans. Therefore, these policies are becoming more and more important to protect biodiversity.
Next week, I will become familiar with the design of such schemes and examine cases where schemes have been successful and unsuccessful.