Its goals include "combating climate change, improving water management and maintaining and enhancing biodiversity."
The "Agriculture Carbon Reduction and Efficiency Scheme" (ACRES) is available to provide capital grants for farms under the AWE.
Participants need to express an interest in a Targeted Element scheme and the Welsh Government decides which TEs to approve.
The TE priorities are reducing carbon emissions, improving water quality and quantity, increasing biodiversity, preserving the historic environment and providing access to the countryside.
[4] In 2014, the Wales Audit Office stated that the scheme had "significant flaws" and made several recommendations on how it might be improved.