Rural Economy, Environment And Society

Projects

Projects per year 2012 2017 2018 2019 2020 2025

• 36 Active
• 132 Finished

Projects per year

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• Benchmarking sustainable intensification of farms using AgRE Calc, DEA and ScotFarm

  Shrestha, S., Vosough Ahmadi, B., Thomson, S., Spencer, M., Barnes, A., Stott, A., Bell, J., Vosough Ahmadi, B., Spencer, M., Barnes, A., Inman, G. & Toma, L.

  SFC GRANT DUMMY CLIENT

  1/03/18 → 31/05/20

  Project: Research

• Updating Nitrogen and Sulphur fertiliser recommendations for spring barley and potatoes

  Hoad, S., Sinclair, A. & Bingham, I.

  AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds

  1/03/18 → 30/04/21

  Project: Research

  • sulfur fertilizers 100%
  • spring barley 77%
  • nitrogen fertilizers 58%
  • fertilizers 22%
  • seedbeds 14%

• The development of an alternative method to high concentration CO2 for the commercial stunning of pigs

  Baxter, E., Akaichi, F. & Farish, M.

  19/03/18 → 31/07/20

  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%
  • Colombia 55%
  • Climate Change 48%
  • Latin America 42%
  • growers 32%

• 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

• 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

  • Scotland 100%
  • farmers 97%
  • farmers' attitudes 97%
  • ecological approach 92%
  • farming systems 76%

• migrant workers in scottish agriculture: a short film

  Atterton, J., McMorran, R. & Jones, S.

  14/05/18 → 31/07/19

  Project: Research

• To support the South Atlantic NCA project by providing ecosystem services valuation and Bayesian modelling expertise

  McVittie, A. & Glenk, K.

  18/06/18 → 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

• 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

• SARIC Translation: Grassland Management

  Topp, K.

  Natural Environment Research Council

  1/08/18 → 31/12/20

  Project: Research

  • Wales 100%
  • England 86%
  • climate 68%
  • grasses 63%
  • soil 43%

• Variety trials for AHDB's Recommended List: trial crop - Winter wheat

  Hoad, S.

  AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds

  1/09/18 → 31/08/19

  Project: Research

• Activity of fungicides against Ramularia leaf spot

  Havis, N., Gorniak, K., Yoxall, T. & Walker, R.

  MAINS OF LOIRSTON TRUST

  1/09/18 → 31/03/20

  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

• Brexit_Enhanced need for policy advice

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

  1/10/18 → 31/03/19

  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

• Developing student enterprise: market challenge - selling wonky produce

  Milne, C.

  17/10/18 → 31/07/19

  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

• Exploring the gender pay gap in rural Scotland

  Meador, E. & Atterton, J.

  1/11/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

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

  Meador, E.

  1/11/18 → 1/05/19

  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

• Legumes Translated

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

  European Commission

  1/11/18 → 30/04/22

  Project: Research

  • pollinator 100%
  • pollinating insects 79%
  • legumes 61%
  • agricultural land 60%
  • Syrphidae 38%

• 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

• 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%

• Assistance in Developing criteria on Agricultural activities to be included in the EU sustainable finance taxonomy

  Eory, V.

  20/12/18 → 15/06/19

  Project: Research

• Provision of analysis to quantify non-CO2 abatement in the UK agriculture sector by 2050, with an emphasis on the potential for innovative and novel measures

  Eory, V., Rees, B., Topp, K., Dewhurst, R. & Wall, E.

  3/01/19 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• 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

• Impact of animal breeding on farm economics and on reduction of GHG emissions

  MacLeod, M.

  1/02/19 → 30/04/19

  Project: Research

• Islands Knowledge Exchange Webinar Series

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

  SFC GRANT DUMMY CLIENT

  1/02/19 → 31/07/21

  Project: Research

  • learning 100%
  • act 78%
  • New Zealand 48%
  • public sector 48%
  • Canada 39%

• Carrots and Sticks: incentives to conserve Hilsa fish in Myanmar

  Glenk, K. & Novo, P.

  5/02/19 → 30/09/19

  Project: Research

  • artisanal fishery 100%
  • Burma 82%
  • Choice Experiment 79%
  • Fish 75%
  • Incentives 74%

• Pathways of Diffuse Pollution to the Water Environment; state of knowledge and communicating best practice

  Cloy, J., Elrick, G., Hargreaves, P., Murphy, S., Kerr, S. & Audsley, R.

  11/02/19 → 30/06/21

  Project: Research

  • phosphorus 100%
  • pollutant 82%
  • loss 73%
  • drain 65%
  • soil 59%

• Productivity of Scottish Agriculture

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

  1/04/19 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

• Transforming food system relationships T-GRAINS

  Atterton, J.

  1/04/19 → 30/09/21

  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%

• 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

• 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 90%
  • farmer 57%
  • Farmers 53%
  • climate change 48%

• 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%

• Concentrated and large scale land ownership

  Glass, J. & McMorran, R.

  1/04/19 → 30/09/19

  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

  • silvopastoral systems 100%
  • Colombia 74%
  • farmer 64%
  • Farmers 59%
  • determinants 52%

• The potential for the refurbishment of historic hydro power generation for the benefit of local communities in the Highlands and Islands

  Glass, J.

  Perth College, University of the Highlands and Islands

  1/04/19 → 31/03/22

  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%

• LEADER 2019-20

  Atterton, J., Skerratt, S., McMorran, R., Meador, E., Jones, S. & Glass, J.

  1/04/19 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

  • commissioned research 100%
  • public private partnership 72%
  • rural development 69%
  • development strategy 67%
  • networking 56%

• Brexit Advisory Call-Off Framework

  Atterton, J.

  16/04/19 → 31/12/19

  Project: Research

• Islands Revival: Exploring the potential for repopulation

  Atterton, J. & McMorran, R.

  29/04/19 → 31/08/19

  Project: Research

• 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

• PHC2019_01 Monitoring for the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (BMSB) Halyomorpha halys

  Evans, A. & Hamilton, A.

  The James Hutton Institute

  1/07/19 → 30/11/19

  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%

• 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