Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs is an organization, which is based in United Kingdom. It is accountable for protecting the environment, food, fisheries and rural communities in the nation.
Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) was formed around June 2001 and Margaret Beckett was its leader. It was formed as a merger of Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) with the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) and the Home Office. However, department was set up initially to deal with several foot and mouth diseases. Helen Ghosh is the Permanent Secretary at present.
Defra or Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs strive to enable everyone live within environmental boundaries. It focuses on
Dealing with climate change across the globe.
Reduce greenhouse gas emissions with the help of domestic actions.
Provide a healthy, resilient, productive and diverse natural environment.
Primarily, Defra aims at controlling the impact of our lifestyles, products that companies manufacture, and wastes that we produce on environment. In fact, profitable contribution of the farming industry should be comparatively improved. Defra perform these tasks along with safeguarding human, animal and plant life. It also protects the economy from the harmful effect of the natural disasters like flood and from other nuclear, biological and chemical risks.
The fundamental delivery partners of Defra or Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs include Environment agency, British Waterways, Natural England, and Forestry Commission.
The key strategies of Defra are:
- To maintain rural communities for longer period of time.
- To sustain production and consumption, wherein it is also responsible for the National Waste Strategy.
- To maintain climate energy and climate change.
- To maintain farming and food sector, that includes animal welfare.
- To protect the natural resources and the charm of countryside.
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