2. Changes to the countryside Converting old farm cottages and barns into holiday homes Recreation activities such as building golf courses Allowing wind farms and mobile phone masts to be built
3. Machinery increases yields so farms have became bigger Machines are more efficient than worker so farms now have less people working on them Fields have to be large and flat so that machines can work on the fields Impacts of technology
4. Impacts of the CAP 70% of the EU’s budget was spent on the CAP Improved Farming methods lead to too much food being made and the extra food was getting wasted Farmers cultivating all there land to get full benefit from Cap which was bad for the environment Farms became bigger and more efficient ment only big farms benefited