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In this podcast SAC Principal Consultant Chloe McCulloch talks to Davy McCracken, Head of SRUC’s Hill & Mountain Research Centre, about the challenges and opportunities facing Scottish agricultural policy-development post-Brexit.…

In this episode of ‘Changing Climate, Changing Food’, Professor Davy McCracken discusses the history and future of policy surrounding agricultural support and NFUS climate change policy manager Ruth Taylor speaks…

Seamus Murphy is joined by Researcher Alasdair Sykes to talk about the science behind mitigation, and how ‘efficiency gains’ and ‘negative emissions’ are two forms that can be used to…

Professor Davy McCracken provides an update on the EU-funded project ‘EuroSheep’ and explains how activities have managed to continue in a virtual environment. The two main project goals are to:…

Scottish agriculture is under significant external pressure, both from the policy and trade landscape after the UK withdraws from the EU and the current COVID-19 outbreak. This puts strain on…

Colleagues at SRUC and the James Hutton Institute have been working together on three short briefings on the results of a survey of 2,494 farmers, crofters and smallholders, ran during…

A new independent report was published in January 2020 focusing on the social and equality impacts of Brexit, in order to better understand how the UK’s exit from the EU…

The UK parliament is set to approve the EU Withdrawal agreement and exit the EU by, or on 31st January 2020. During the 11 month withdrawal period the UK and…

A new briefing has been published by SRUC’s Steven Thomson and Rob Mc Morran, which provides an update on their 2018 report “Farm Workers in Scottish Agriculture: Studies in the…

The importance of ensuring “High Nature Value” farmlands across the globe has been highlighted in a new paper published by a consortium of European Scientists – including SRUC’s Professor Davy…