Countryside and Farming

Questions on Countryside and Farming were asked in the Northern Ireland Life and Times survey in 2004.
Questions on Environment were asked in the Northern Ireland Life and Times survey in 2000, as part of the International Social Survey Programme.
Questions were also asked of 16 year olds in the Young Life and Times Survey in 2006.

ARK Resources

• Cultivating Good Relations though Social and Community Farming is a Policy Brief by Jonny Hanson and Aoibeann Walsh.
• A 'green and pleasant land?' Public attitudes to the countryside in Northern Ireland, by Sally Shortall (Research Update 47)
• A seminar based on the 2004 questions on countryside and farming was held on 29 November 2006.

Links

• The Ulster Farmers' Union represents farmers and growers in Northern Ireland.
• The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs has responsibility for food, farming, environmental, fisheries, forestry and sustainability policy and the development of the rural sector in Northern Ireland.
• The Rural Community Network is a regional voluntary membership based organisation supporting rural communities across Northern Ireland.

Maintained by Paula Devine