ACRES West Connacht
ACRES West Connacht
ACRES is Ireland's agri-environment climate scheme under Ireland's CAP Strategic Plan. This €1.5 billion flagship agri-environment scheme is a farmer-friendly scheme to help address biodiversity decline while delivering an income support for up to 50,000 farm families in Ireland.
The ACRES Co-operation Project (ACRES CP) uses a qualitative approach whereby all forage land included in the scheme will be assessed using results-based score cards with incentives in place to increase scores and improve the landscape being farmed. There are eight Co-operation (CP) Zones nationwide.
ACRES West Connacht encompasses the North West Connacht CP Zone and the South Mayo Connemara CP Zone, and is administered by a local project team. The main role of the project team is to support farmers and their advisors in delivering improved environmental outcomes across the region. Our team has a wide range of expertise in agriculture and ecology available to ensure that we can provide specialist advice as required.
For operational reasons and to retain a local relevance we have defined six local areas within ACRES West Connacht.
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ACRES West Connacht is funded by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine with National Exchequer and European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) of the European Union funds under Ireland’s CAP Strategic Plan 2023-2027.
