Rural Economy, Environment And Society

Projects

Projects per year 2012 2018 2019 2022 2027

• 75 Active
• 152 Finished

Projects per year

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• SLC-LandMarket: Rural Land Market Insights Reporting 2022

  Thomson, S., Merrell, I. & Glendinning, J. G.

  14/01/22 → 20/03/23

  Project: Research

  • Land 100%
  • Interviews 33%
  • Research 33%
  • Reporting Finding 33%
  • Conducting Interview 33%

• 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

• 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

  • Consumers 100%
  • USA 50%
  • Application 50%
  • State 50%
  • Adoption 50%

• 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: PhD project

• 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

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

  Glenk, K. & Schulz, C.

  2/12/20 → 31/12/22

  Project: Research

  • Water 100%
  • Surveys 41%
  • Survey 41%
  • Decision Making 33%
  • Value 33%

• Climate change, the land-based labour market and rural land use in Scotland - an evidence assessment

  Atterton, J. & Tiwasing, P.

  25/07/22 → 15/12/22

  Project: Research

  • Assessment 100%
  • Scotland 100%
  • Labor Market 75%
  • Rural Land Use 50%
  • Climate Change 50%

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

  Akaichi, F.

  15/08/21 → 30/11/22

  Project: Research

  • Welfare 100%
  • Pork 80%
  • Tail 80%
  • Information 47%
  • Consumers 42%

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

  Hoad, S. & Scott, P.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/09/17 → 18/11/22

  Project: PhD project

• Rapid Evidence Assessments - Assessment of practices to reduce post-weaning diarrhoea in pigs

  Rodrigues da Costa, M., Nale, J., Botero Degiovanni, H. & Beechener, S.

  27/06/22 → 11/11/22

  Project: Research

  • Pig 100%
  • Zinc Oxide 81%
  • Research 28%
  • Feed Additives 9%
  • Colostrum 6%

• Provision of Economic Advice and Related Services to Support Development of a New Rural Support Scheme for Scotland]

  Thomson, S.

  1/10/21 → 31/10/22

  Project: Research

  • Support 100%
  • UK 66%
  • Scotland 53%
  • Policy 45%
  • Land 44%

• 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

  • Sheep 100%
  • Cattle 50%

• 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

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

  Toma, L.

  1/10/18 → 30/09/22

  Project: Research

• Resilient people need resilient ecosystems in smart cities RESPiRES

  Novo, P.

  14/02/19 → 14/08/22

  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

  • Breeding 100%
  • Calves 88%
  • Objectives 79%
  • Animals 76%
  • Weather 70%

• Dandelion : Dandelion Festival 2022

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

  1/10/21 → 31/07/22

  Project: Other

  • Festivals 100%
  • Challenges 66%
  • Northern England 33%
  • Isolation Method 33%
  • Engage-ment 33%

• Inoculated disease trials: cereals and winter oilseed rape

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

  AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds

  1/07/16 → 31/07/22

  Project: Research

• Improving Reporting of Land Market Transactions

  McMorran, R.

  20/11/21 → 30/06/22

  Project: Research

  • Activity 100%
  • Datum 75%
  • Scotland 52%
  • UK 50%
  • Interviews 50%

• 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

  • Licensing 100%

• Japan - Shared Challenges on Depopulation across Island Communities

  Atterton, J., Lamont, K., Gkartzios, M. & Dilley, L.

  7/03/22 → 31/05/22

  Project: Research

  • Islands 100%
  • Japan 100%
  • Communities 50%
  • UK 50%
  • Policy 50%

• 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 → 31/05/22

  Project: Research

  • Sheep 100%
  • Beef 80%
  • Cattle 72%
  • Transhumance 72%
  • Greenhouse Gas 72%

• Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)

  Baughan, J., Shrestha, S., Henry, M., Lamont, K., Humphry, R. & Tongue, S.

  UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  14/02/19 → 31/05/22

  Project: Research

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

  Revoredo Giha, C.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/16 → 31/05/22

  Project: Research

• Legumes Translated

  Revoredo Giha, C., Topp, K., Dewhurst, R., Costa Font, M., MacPherson, L., Houdijk, J., Walker, R., Hargreaves, P., Lawson, D., Newbold, J. & Watson, C.

  European Commission

  1/11/18 → 30/04/22

  Project: Research

  • Pollinator 100%
  • Cropping System 86%
  • Mixtures 57%
  • Anthesis 42%
  • Flowers 42%

• 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

  • Farmers 100%
  • Practice 65%
  • Area 48%
  • Policy 48%
  • Transition 42%

• Modelling short & long-term resilience and efficiency of cattle production

  Wall, E. & Eory, V.

  University of Edinburgh

  1/10/17 → 30/04/22

  Project: Research

• 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

  • Technology 100%
  • Science and Technology 97%
  • Agriculture 73%
  • Emission 42%
  • Utilization 35%

• Nitrogen and sulphur fertiliser management to achieve grain protein quality targets of high yielding modern winter milling wheat

  Hoad, S.

  AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds

  1/07/18 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

• 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

  • Control 100%
  • Farmers 74%
  • Information 62%
  • Pig 50%
  • Specific Industry 50%

• Orphan crops: conventional breeding versus genomic selection approaches. Understanding Issues and options to support food and nutritional security in Africa

  Hoad, S. & Bančič, J.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/09/17 → 28/02/22

  Project: Research

• 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

  • Environmental Valuation 100%
  • Environmental Economics 100%

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

  McVittie, A.

  20/09/21 → 31/01/22

  Project: Other

  • Montserrat 100%
  • Belief Networks 50%
  • Land Management 50%
  • Reef 50%
  • Ecosystem Service 50%

• Understanding interactions between Ramularia collo-cygni and barley leaf physiology to target improvements in host resistance and disease control strategies

  Bingham, I.

  AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds

  5/01/16 → 31/01/22

  Project: Research

  • Leaves 100%
  • Barley 100%
  • Ramularia 100%
  • Swan 55%
  • Leaf Spot 44%

• Growing the Community Business Network UK-wide Understanding the ‘cold spot’ areas where Plunkett Foundation supports fewer community businesses

  Atterton, J.

  8/11/21 → 31/01/22

  Project: Research

  • Comprehension 100%

• 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

  • Montserrat 100%
  • Natural Capital 100%
  • Model 100%
  • Monitor 50%
  • Flood 50%

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

  Reed, M. & Williams, A.

  7/12/20 → 31/12/21

  Project: Research

  • Soil Carbon 100%
  • Dairies 100%
  • Ecosystem 68%
  • Carbon 65%
  • United Kingdom 54%

• Quantifying the social, economic and environmental consequences of changes in agricultural production in a spatial perspective

  Eory, V.

  1/09/17 → 31/12/21

  Project: Research

• Soils Programme Research Partnership: Management for Soil Biology and Health

  Jones, S., Hargreaves, P., Watson, C. & Parker, J.

  AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds

  1/01/17 → 31/12/21

  Project: Research

• CxC GHG emissions reduction targets in Scottish agriculture

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

  3/08/21 → 26/11/21

  Project: Research

  • Greenhouse Gas Emission 100%
  • Targets 100%
  • Greenhouse Gas 100%

• 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

  • Land Management 100%
  • Public Goods 95%
  • Delivery 87%
  • Management 77%
  • Pests 75%

• 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%
  • Welsh 60%
  • Economic Analysis 51%
  • Payment Scheme 51%
  • Agriculture 51%

• Autums survey of wheat bulb fly incidence 2019-21

  Evans, A. & Dussart, F.

  AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds

  16/09/19 → 30/09/21

  Project: Research

• Transition paths to sustainable legume based systems in Europe (TRUE)

  Rees, B., Toma, L., March, M., Akaichi, F., Shrestha, S. & Barnes, A.

  European Commission

  1/04/17 → 30/09/21

  Project: Research

  • Legume 100%
  • Human Nutrition 44%
  • Crops 43%
  • Europeans 38%
  • Whirl 34%

• 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

  • Climate Change 100%
  • Farmers 95%
  • Varieties 79%
  • Municipality 75%
  • Homicide 75%

• Transforming food system relationships T-GRAINS

  Atterton, J.

  1/04/19 → 30/09/21

  Project: Research

• 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

  • Farmers 100%
  • Integrated Pest Management 35%
  • Information Network 31%
  • Surveys 31%
  • Databases 28%

• Islands Knowledge Exchange Webinar Series

  McMorran, R., Atterton, J. & Glass, J.

  SFC GRANT

  1/02/19 → 31/07/21

  Project: Research

  • Islands 100%
  • Communities 66%
  • UK 55%
  • Proofing 55%
  • Community Impact 22%

• Improved estimation and mitigation of nitrous oxide emissions and soil carbon storage from crop residues (ResidueGas)

  Rees, B. & Topp, K.

  UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  1/04/17 → 31/07/21

  Project: Research

  • Crops 100%
  • Livestock 75%
  • Emission 66%
  • Nitrous Oxide 58%
  • Option 56%

• Determining the fungicide resistance management strategy of minor UK crops using Botrytis as a model

  Havis, N.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/16 → 30/06/21

  Project: Research