There are a suite of policies that govern and guide land use and land reform in Scotland. A new Land Reform Bill was introduced in 2024, the Just Transition Committee will be sharing results shortly, there is a new Agriculture and Rural Communities Bill on the horizon which will replace the current Common Agricultural Policy, and a new Climate Change Plan is also due shortly.
We will keep you up-to-date on these developments and provide our thoughts on the details as they emerge.
In an extension to the Islands Agriculture Report published in 2024, the Orkney Islands Council and the Orkney Local Action Group commissioned this work to assess the implications of significant...[more]
Scotland has retained ‘voluntary coupled support’ for its suckler beef herd since 2005 in recognition of the importance and vulnerability of the sector. From 2025, the Scottish Government have...[more]
SRUC has published a Rapid Evidence Review of Monitoring and Evaluation Frameworks for Agricultural Support into support thinking of the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) framework for the Scottish Government's Agricultural...[more]
Scottish Suckler Beef Support Scheme - small herd considerations for 410 day calving interval conditionalityThis Novel Insights on Scotland’s Rural and Island Economies (NISRIE) project output examines the potential financial...[more]
Assessing the relative influence of land-use policies on land managersScotland has a suite of different policies relating to land-use, reflecting the complexities of balancing different land-use aims, including food production...[more]
Scottish Suckler Beef Support Scheme holdings – calf mortality and seasonality of 410-day calving interval conditionThis report was published in 2024 as outputs from the Scottish Government's Environment, Natural Resources...[more]
410-day calving interval condition - an assessment of conditional Scottish Suckler Beef Support Scheme payment rates for 2015-2023. The Scottish beef sector has been afforded coupled support payments since...[more]
Policy Note - Spatial Data Requirements for Land-Based Policy ObjectivesSRUC and the James Hutton Institute have co-written a policy note informed by evidence from their 'sister' research projects on land...[more]