Is forestry really more profitable than upland farming? A historic and present day farm level economic comparison of upland sheep farming and forestry in the UK

Ashley Hardaker

Land Use Policy, 2018, vol. 71, issue C, 98-120

Abstract: There are currently 3.16 million hectares of woodland cover in the United Kingdom. At a European scale, the UK is one of the countries with the lowest woodland cover, currently extending to only 13% of the total land area of the UK, this is less than half of the European Union (EU) average of 37 per cent. A significant study carried out by Read et al. (2009) identified that UK wide there is a need to increase significantly levels of new planting and forest creation by more than 23,000ha each year over the next 40 years if a substantial influence on reversing climate change is to be realised. It is clear that expansion of the total forested area in the UK necessitates the establishment of new woodland and forest cover on farmland which is either owner occupied or rented out.

Keywords: Forestry; Afforestation; Economic modelling; Uplands; Hill-farming (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.11.032

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