Rural Development & Food Marketing

Projects

Projects per year 2012 2023

• 19 Active
• 56 Finished

Projects per year

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• Active

  Understanding precision livestock farming adoption in the US swine industry: Examining needs, perceptions, and willingness to pay of users and consumers

  Turner, S., Vigors, B. & Akaichi, F.

  1/02/21 → 31/01/23

  Project: Research

  • Willingness-to-pay 100%
  • Swine 91%
  • Livestock 67%
  • Farming 60%
  • United States of America 24%

• Resilient dairy: socio-technical innovation for dairy resilience and sustainability

  Reed, M. & Williams, A.

  7/12/20 → 31/12/21

  Project: Research

• EWSFS: Provision of services to analyse the potential economic effects of the Sustainable Farming Scheme on the agricultural sector in Wales

  Thomson, S.

  16/09/20 → 31/10/21

  Project: Research

  • Farm 100%
  • Wales 94%
  • Economic Effect 87%
  • Farming 86%
  • Agricultural Sector 84%

• MEASURE: Environmental and economic impacts of improved antibiotics stewardship in poultry systems

  Toma, L., Sparks, N., Shrestha, S. & MacLeod, M.

  University of Edinburgh

  1/08/19 → 1/06/23

  Project: Research

  • anti-infective agents 100%
  • poultry 84%
  • economic impact 70%
  • supply chain 68%
  • marginal abatement cost 64%

• Bean breeding for adaptation to a changing climate and post-conflict Colombia

  Barnes, A. & Botero Degiovanni, H.

  1/04/19 → 30/09/21

  Project: Research

  • Colombia 100%
  • Bean 67%
  • violence 64%
  • Homicide 58%
  • Municipalities 54%

• Transforming food system relationships T-GRAINS

  Meador, E.

  1/04/19 → 30/09/21

  Project: Research

• Towards BIOSmart livestock farming in Colombia: cultural landscape, silvo-pastoral systems and biodiversity

  Barnes, A. & Botero Degiovanni, H.

  1/04/19 → 30/09/21

  Project: Research

• Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)

  Baughan, J., Shrestha, S., Henry, M., Reeves, A., Barratt, A., Stephen, K., Humphry, R., Tongue, S. & Gomes, C.

  Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  14/02/19 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

• Legumes Translated

  Watson, C., Revoredo Giha, C., Topp, K., Dewhurst, R., Costa Font, M., MacPherson, L., Houdijk, J., Flockhart, J. & Walker, R.

  European Commission

  1/11/18 → 31/10/21

  Project: Research

• Innovation and collaboration to mitigate food waste in the fruit and vegetable supply chain

  Toma, L.

  1/10/18 → 30/09/22

  Project: Research

• Networks for risk management in developing dairy sectors

  Barnes, A.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/18 → 30/09/22

  Project: Research

• Support to economic modeling of agriculture

  Shrestha, S.

  1/09/18 → 31/08/23

  Project: Research

• Legume SELECT: Science-driven evaluation of legume choice for transformed livelihoods

  Barnes, A.

  1/07/18 → 31/10/21

  Project: Research

  • Legumes 100%
  • Sub-Saharan Africa 72%
  • households 56%
  • legumes 48%
  • Household 38%

• Low-Input Farming and Territories - Integrating knowledge for improving ecosystem-based farming

  Barnes, A., Toma, L., Shrestha, S., Ferreira, J., Thompson, B., McCracken, D. & Latto, D.

  European Commission

  1/05/18 → 30/04/22

  Project: Research

• Livestock's role in food system resilience in remote, upland regions

  McCracken, D., Shrestha, S., Thomson, S., Holland, J., Morgan-Davies, C., Barnes, A. & McLaren, A.

  B.b.s.r.c.

  1/11/17 → 31/10/21

  Project: Research

  • beef 100%
  • herds 55%
  • cattle 54%
  • finishing 51%
  • Scotland 51%

• Arthropod conservatin in agricultural landscapes : modelling farmer decision-making and biodiversity outcomes

  Barnes, A.

  University of Edinburgh

  1/09/17 → 30/08/23

  Project: Research

• Linking food system shocks with conflict and migration: using historical evidence to predict resilience and vulnerabilities

  Toma, L.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/07/17 → 31/07/23

  Project: Research

• Mitigating producers' income fluctuations through collaborative supply chains in the dairy sector

  Revoredo Giha, C.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/16 → 31/08/21

  Project: Research

• Modelling Complex Social Systems in the Context of Coastal Ecosystem Services & Resource Management

  Barnes, A.

  University of Edinburgh

  1/09/14 → 31/03/23

  Project: Research

• Finished

  Developing a decision support tool to inform land management scenarios in Montserrat

  McVittie, A., Hamilton, A., Gibson-Poole, S. & Botero Degiovanni, H.

  26/01/21 → 26/03/21

  Project: Other

  • Land use 100%
  • Bayesian networks 84%
  • Decision making 60%

• Uplandia: Systems modelling for evidence-informed peatland policy

  Reed, M.

  21/12/20 → 31/03/21

  Project: Research

  • peatland 100%
  • policy 61%
  • peat 48%
  • wildfire 45%
  • Anglian 38%

• NZL: Carbon net zero & UK livestock systems

  Rees, B., Buckingham, S., Dewhurst, R., Sykes, A. & Bell, J.

  1/05/20 → 31/08/20

  Project: Research

  • livestock 100%
  • carbon 49%
  • land use 29%

• Assessment of large-scale plant biosecurity risks to Scotland from non-specialist and online horticultural sales

  Toma, L.

  Forest Research

  30/03/20 → 31/03/21

  Project: Research

• Improving access to nutritious and sustainable foods through increasing the production and consumption of underutilised crops in Nepal

  Akaichi, F.

  The Academy of Medical Sciences

  1/03/20 → 28/02/21

  Project: Research

• Historical changes in climate/snow cover in Cairngorm Mountains and to estimate future response

  Spencer, M.

  7/02/20 → 9/03/20

  Project: Research

• Attitudes towards land reform: Public priorities and focus for the future

  McMorran, R., Craigie, M., Maynard, C., Thomson, S. & Glass, J.

  Ipsos MORI

  5/02/20 → 30/11/20

  Project: Research

  • land reform 100%
  • public attitude 96%
  • fieldwork 34%
  • autumn 28%
  • stakeholder 27%

• Economic Modelling: Reducing Health Harms of Foods High in Fat, Sugar or Salt

  Revoredo Giha, C. & Akaichi, F.

  26/08/19 → 29/02/20

  Project: Research

• Understanding the Relative Cost-effectiveness of Sea-lice Treatments for Farmed Salmon Production

  Toma, L., Shrestha, S., Reeves, A., Barratt, A., Leinonen, I. & Boerlage, A.

  1/08/19 → 31/07/20

  Project: Research

• Research to assess the socioeconomic and biodiversity impacts of driven grouse moors and to understand the rights of gamekeepers

  Thomson, S., McMorran, R., Spencer, M., McMillan, J. & Glass, J.

  29/07/19 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

  • biodiversity 100%
  • Employment rights 71%
  • Socio-economic Impact 60%
  • Biodiversity 54%
  • economic impact 50%

• Preparing the evidence base for post-Brexit agriculture in Scotland - Case studies on alternative payments

  Watson, C., Shrestha, S. & Sellars, A.

  1/05/19 → 30/11/19

  Project: Research

• Productivity of Scottish Agriculture

  Thomson, S., Bell, J., Bevan, K., McMillan, J. & Barnes, A.

  1/04/19 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

• RESAS Strategic Research Programme 2016-21 WP2.3 Productive and sustainable land management

  Wall, E., Smith, S., Nicoll, L., Parker, J., Robertson, D., Davidson, R., Donbavand, J., Anderson, C., Roehe, R., Harrison, B., Purcell, L., Duthie, C., Gunn, G., Pritchard, T., Jones, S., Bagnall, A., Vosough Ahmadi, B., Archibald, I., Rees, B., Eory, V., Glenk, K., Edwards, T., Buckingham, S., March, M., Broadbent, C., Cloy, J., Hargreaves, P., Wishart, H., Griffiths, B., Fox, N., Sparks, N., Shrestha, S., Banos, G., Henry, M., Watson, C., Dickinson, J., Topp, K., Burnett, F., Kyle, J., Denholm, S., Dewhurst, R., Lawson, D., McCubbin, I., Dwyer, C., Holland, J., McCracken, D., Barratt, A., Havis, N., Stanisz-Migal, M., Miller, G., Bowen, J., Hutchings, M., Creissen, H., D'Eath, R., Baddeley, J., Houdijk, J., Coffey, M., Morgan-Davies, C., Walker, R., Turner, S., Haskell, M., Barnes, A., Athanasiadou, S., Cole, L., Sandilands, V., McLaren, A., MacLeod, M. & Smith, L.

  1/04/19 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

  • Rumen 100%
  • Methane 91%
  • Microbiota 66%
  • Cattle 53%
  • Fibrobacter 51%

• RESAS Strategic Research Programme 2016-21 WP3.3 Food Security

  Revoredo Giha, C., Toma, L., Akaichi, F. & Costa Font, M.

  1/04/19 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

  • potato products 100%
  • Solanum tuberosum 88%
  • Meat 72%
  • environmental assessment 71%
  • vegetable 68%

• RESAS Centres of Expertise: CxC

  Barnes, A., Hyslop, J., Bell, J., Rees, B., Eory, V., Leinonen, I., Flockhart, J. & MacLeod, M.

  1/04/19 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

• RESAS Centres of Expertise: EPIC

  Gunn, G., Toma, L., Tongue, S., Auty, H., Gomes, C., Eze, J., Sparks, N., Hutchinson, I., Reeves, A., Stirling, J., Barratt, A. & Barnes, A.

  RESAS

  1/04/19 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

  • biosecurity 100%
  • Practice Management 99%
  • Scotland 96%
  • Ovum 85%
  • questionnaires 56%

• Adoption of Nutrient MGT plans by EU Farmers & the impact on GHG Emissions

  Eory, V. & Barnes, A.

  IPSOS IBERIA

  23/01/19 → 22/02/20

  Project: Research

• Evaluating the significance of agri-supply chains in rural economies

  Thomson, S., Revoredo Giha, C., Atterton, J., Jones, S. & Barnes, A.

  20/12/18 → 30/04/19

  Project: Research

  • Rural Economy 100%
  • Input-output Table 82%
  • Urban Geography 60%
  • Agriculture 54%
  • Supply Chain 43%

• The impact of mandatory written dairy contracts In European countries and their potential application in Scotland

  Revoredo Giha, C., Akaichi, F. & Costa Font, M.

  26/11/18 → 24/05/19

  Project: Research

• Exploring the gender pay gap in rural Scotland

  Meador, E.

  1/11/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

• Review of international experience of community, communal and municipal ownership of land

  Atterton, J. & McMorran, R.

  1/11/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Network analysis- where do people in Scotland get their plant health information

  Meador, E.

  1/11/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Developing an evaluation culture and capacity within SRUC

  Milne, C.

  1/11/18 → 31/07/19

  Project: Research

• Developing student enterprise: market challenge - selling wonky produce

  Milne, C.

  17/10/18 → 31/07/19

  Project: Research

• Delivering clean growth through sustainable intensification

  Barnes, A., Carter, N., Rees, B., Eory, V. & MacLeod, M.

  Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  8/10/18 → 31/05/21

  Project: Research

• Brexit_Enhanced need for policy advice

  Barnes, A., Atterton, J., Thomson, S. & McCracken, D.

  1/10/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Identifying the 'hot' spots and 'not' spots of emergency and everyday resilience centres in Scotland

  Barnes, A., Atterton, J., Thomson, S. & McCracken, D.

  1/10/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Estimating the economic costs of bovine TB incidents on cattle farms in the high risk edge areas of England and Wales

  Barnes, A., Stott, A., Toma, L., Vosough Ahmadi, B., Barratt, A. & Hutchings, M.

  18/06/18 → 31/10/19

  Project: Research

• Bean breeding and Adoption in changing climates in post-conflict COlombia (BACO)

  Barnes, A. & Botero Degiovanni, H.

  1/04/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

  • Bean 100%
  • Latin America 84%
  • Climate Change 77%
  • growers 65%
  • beans 63%

• Physiological characterization of heat-tolerant bean genotypes in simulated future environments to enhance postconflict regional development

  Barnes, A. & Botero Degiovanni, H.

  1/04/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Towards BIOSmart livestock farming in Colombia: cultural landscape, silvo-pastoral systems and biodiversity

  Barnes, A. & Botero Degiovanni, H.

  1/04/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research