They will discuss additional support requirements;Develop with the farming community small-scale capital investment measures designed to provide environmental and landscape benefits, which also offer work to farm employees and local contractors; Sympathetic consideration of applications from Dumfries and Galloway under European Structural Funds and other schemes; andAppointment of a Woodland Development Adviser in South West Scotland to advise on how woodland development might assist farmers and other land managers recover from the effects of foot-and-mouth disease.In addition to these short-term measures, the Executive is also already engaged in dialogue with Dumfries and Galloway to develop many of the medium- and longer-term measures contained in the recovery plan, with a view to providing a fuller response in the coming months.