Rural Economy, Environment And Society

Projects

Projects per year 2012 2017 2018 2019 2020 2025

• 34 Active
• 136 Finished

Projects per year

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• Active

  Review and evaluation of existing (or near-to-market) methane reducing feed additives and technologies, with associated (business and government) recommendations to deliver ‘best practice’, well-governed markets.

  Miller, G., Duthie, C., Newbold, J. & Eory, V.

  12/05/22 → 30/10/22

  Project: Research

• EPIC IV: Scottish Government's Centre of Expertise on Animal Disease Outbreaks, 2022 - 2025 (EPIC IV)

  Gunn, G., Barnes, A., Reeves, A., Lawton, S., Tongue, S., Stirling, J., Rodrigues da Costa, M., Eze, J., Toma, L., Helgesen, I., Barratt, A., Sparks, N., Hutchinson, I. & Denniston, J.

  1/04/22 → 31/03/25

  Project: Research

  • animal diseases 100%
  • animal health 76%
  • disease control 42%
  • research policy 38%
  • disease surveillance 31%

• Improving Reporting of Land Market Transactions

  McMorran, R.

  20/11/21 → 30/06/22

  Project: Research

  • Land Market 100%
  • Scotland 42%
  • Market Activity 31%
  • Market Data 28%
  • Buyers 15%

• Dandelion : Dandelion Festival 2022

  Burnett, F., Rudman, H. & Vichos, R.

  1/10/21 → 31/07/22

  Project: Other

  • festival 100%
  • social isolation 21%
  • budget 20%
  • staff 15%
  • experiment 14%

• Economics of curly tails – consumer preference and willingness to pay

  Akaichi, F.

  15/08/21 → 30/11/22

  Project: Research

  • Willingness-to-pay 100%
  • willingness to pay 79%
  • Pork 75%
  • Consumer Preferences 58%
  • Antibiotics 34%

• Greenhouse Gas Removal by Accelerated Peat Formation

  Reed, M.

  4/05/21 → 3/11/25

  Project: Research

• Tropical peatland climate resilience: Transferring governance of Climate risks for poverty reduction in Indonesia, Peru and the Congo Basin

  Reed, M., Williams, A., Maynard, C. & Beechener, S.

  30/04/21 → 29/04/23

  Project: Research

• 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%

• VWI Cambridge: Exploring Fundamental Values for the Valuing Water Initiative

  Glenk, K. & Schulz, C.

  2/12/20 → 31/12/22

  Project: Other

  • water 100%
  • document 62%
  • valuation 57%
  • world 46%
  • decision making 40%

• Provision of a livestock enterprise costing and carbon footprint survey and analysis to provide benchmark information for cattle and sheep farmers in Scotland.

  Riddell, I., Hill, G., Bothwell, C., Inman, G. & Sykes, A.

  1/10/20 → 31/10/22

  Project: Consultancy

  • Costing 100%
  • Online Databases 97%
  • Audit 91%
  • Carbon Footprint 87%
  • Cattle 85%

• 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 → 28/02/23

  Project: Research

• Climate Smart Cattle Farming: Development of novel technologies, solutions and systems to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in animal production systems

  Rees, B., Eory, V., Hargreaves, P. & Hoebe, P.

  Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  1/10/19 → 30/03/23

  Project: Research

• Understanding the genetic basis for Ramularia resistance in barley

  Havis, N.

  University of Edinburgh

  1/10/19 → 30/09/23

  Project: Research

• Low carbon farming: making carbon accounting relevant to farming and food productions

  Glenk, K., Eory, V. & Haroon, G.

  1/09/19 → 30/08/23

  Project: Research

• 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%

• Resilient people need resilient ecosystems in smart cities RESPiRES

  Novo, P.

  14/02/19 → 14/08/22

  Project: Research

• South Asian Nitrogen Hub

  Rees, B., Eory, V., Glenk, K. & Begho, T.

  13/02/19 → 29/02/24

  Project: Research

  • Nitrogen 100%
  • Soil 91%
  • Nitrogen Cycle 89%
  • Asia 88%
  • nitrogen 71%

• Assessment of direct and indirect use values of Lake Maninjau's Environmental Services

  Glenk, K.

  University of Edinburgh

  15/01/19 → 31/12/22

  Project: Research

  • cage culture 100%
  • Indonesia 57%
  • farming systems 51%
  • lakes 51%
  • lake 36%

• Do UK grasslands have the ability to sequester more carbon? Assessment of stability and resilience to changing climate and management

  Buckingham, S.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/18 → 30/09/22

  Project: Research

• Networks for risk management in developing dairy sectors

  Barnes, A.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/18 → 30/04/23

  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

• Support to economic modeling of agriculture

  Shrestha, S.

  1/09/18 → 31/08/23

  Project: Research

• Cattle breeding choices : reconciling productivity, sustainability and food security objectives

  Glenk, K. & Eory, V.

  1/09/18 → 31/12/23

  Project: Research

• Provision of agronomic trials for cultivation and use 2018-2023 Lot 2

  Hoad, S. & Walker, R.

  Scottish Government

  30/06/18 → 31/12/23

  Project: Research

• Oilseed Rape Genetic Improvement Network OREGIN

  Burnett, F. & Havis, N.

  1/03/18 → 31/03/23

  Project: Research

• The significance of plant interactions in the design of breeding programmes

  Hoad, S. & Scott, P.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/09/17 → 31/12/24

  Project: Research

• 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

• Genomic management tools to optimise resilience and efficiency GenTORE

  Wall, E., Eory, V. & Bunning, H.

  European Commission

  1/04/17 → 31/07/22

  Project: Research

  • stakeholders 100%
  • breeding 91%
  • Breeding 88%
  • dairies 68%
  • Cattle 60%

• Inoculated disease trials: cereals and winter oilseed rape

  Havis, N., Gorniak, K., Yoxall, T., Burnett, F., Laing, A., Fortune, J. & Graham, N.

  AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds

  1/07/16 → 31/07/22

  Project: Research

• Understanding the physiological and molecular basis of genetic variation in post-flowering N dynamics in Barley to improve N use efficiency

  Bingham, I.

  SRUC internal funding

  5/01/16 → 31/12/22

  Project: Research

• Understanding antibiotic usage on farms - improving usage and reducing the speed of antibiotic resistance

  McMorran, R.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/15 → 31/10/23

  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

• Provision of a herbage trial to obtain Scottish data for UK National List value for cultivation and use assessments / Scottish recommended list purposes

  Lawson, D.

  Scottish Government

  1/04/14 → 31/12/22

  Project: Research

• Finished

  Reviewing, assessing and critiquing the evidence base on muirburn to inform the development of a licensing approach in Scotland

  Holland, J., McCracken, D., Glendinning, J. G., Buckingham, S. & Pollock, M.

  6/04/22 → 14/06/22

  Project: Commercial

  • Scotland 100%
  • Licensure 93%

• Pigdemic: Farmer-centric networks to control endemic pig diseases in the UK: using pleurisy as a case study

  Rodrigues da Costa, M., Pearce, M., Gunn, G., Berezowski, J., Reeves, A. & Beechener, S.

  1/11/21 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

  • pleurisy 100%
  • swine diseases 50%
  • farmers 35%
  • case studies 30%
  • control methods 16%

• Understanding the effects of land management scenarios on reef resilience in Montserrat

  McVittie, A.

  20/09/21 → 31/01/22

  Project: Other

  • Marine Environment 100%
  • Bayesian Belief Networks 96%
  • Land Management 82%
  • Ecosystem Services 78%
  • Land Use 64%

• Developing an inland flood/hydrological system and indicators to monitor and inform land management in Montserrat

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

  20/09/21 → 31/01/22

  Project: Commercial

  • land management 100%
  • natural capital 66%
  • indicator 60%

• CR/2021/03: Reducing emissions from agriculture – the role of new technologies

  Barnes, A., Eory, V., Rees, B., Newbold, J., Duthie, C., Bowen, J., Miller, G. & Farquhar, J.

  13/09/21 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

  • agriculture 100%
  • new technology 97%

• CxC GHG emissions reduction targets in Scottish agriculture

  Eory, V., Rees, B., Barnes, A. & Topp, K.

  3/08/21 → 26/11/21

  Project: Research

  • emission reduction 100%
  • agriculture 97%

• Understanding farm level environmental indicators and economic performance

  Barnes, A., Toma, L., Eory, V., Rees, B., Topp, K., Glenk, K. & Knocker, L.

  15/07/21 → 25/02/22

  Project: Research

  • Business Survey 100%
  • Environmental Indicators 96%
  • Farm 83%
  • Environmental Economics 73%
  • Econometric Analysis 73%

• IPM-N: Mapping information networks that influence farmer behaviours related to IPM adoption (MINIF)

  Meador, E. & Creissen, H.

  31/03/21 → 30/09/21

  Project: Research

  • information network 100%
  • impact source 54%
  • social survey 53%
  • pest 41%
  • Contractors 35%

• 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%

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

  Reed, M. & Williams, A.

  7/12/20 → 31/12/21

  Project: Research

• IPM T&T: Environmental Land Management - Integrated Pest Management Test and Trial

  Creissen, H., Meador, E. & Evans, A.

  1/12/20 → 31/10/21

  Project: Other

  • integrated pest management 100%
  • land management 63%
  • trial 52%
  • behavior change 49%
  • growers 38%

• EtT: Exploring the Twitterverse: Developing novel approaches to scaling the dissemination of expert knowledge on social media platforms in Scotland.

  Meador, E. & Creissen, H.

  1/12/20 → 31/03/21

  Project: Research

  • Soils 100%
  • Health 93%
  • agriculture 53%
  • farmer 37%
  • social network 33%

• Review of the Kilgallioch Windfarm Community Fund

  Glass, J. & Atterton, J.

  24/11/20 → 11/06/21

  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

  • Economic Effect 100%
  • Farming 98%
  • Farm 98%
  • Wales 85%
  • Agricultural Sector 41%

• A high-level scoping review farming, greenhouse gas emissions and carbon storage - cereals and oilseeds

  Eory, V.

  1/07/20 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research