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Scottish Land Insights (SLI)

Welcome to Scottish Land Insights (SLI) – our home page for all matters concerning land in Scotland. There is growing competition and views on how we should our land. There are concerns around food security, tackling climate change, housing a growing population, and harvesting raw materials – all of which require land. Increased demands on our land is inflating land prices, with record levels recorded in recent years. There is growing interest from large companies and institutions in Scottish land, to use it to generate carbon credits which are sold (offsetting) or used to green their own credentials (insetting).

At SRUC we run several pieces of research about land use and changes to these usages, including in the Scottish Government’s Strategic Research Programme. Our core project at the Rural Policy Centre is called “Impacts of land-based financial support mechanisms on land values, landownership diversification and land use outcomes” where we look into how financial incentives are affecting land use and values. This website will keep you up-to-date with any recent developments of this project through blogs, articles, research reports and podcasts. We will also highlight interesting findings from other SRUC projects and recent media reports.

Further Reading

More within the Scottish Land Insights (SLI) project

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Mapping Scottish Landownership

This research is part of a wider project "Impacts of land-based financial support mechanisms on land values, land ownership diversification and land use outcomes" (SRUC-E3/C3-1). This report demonstrates our work...[more]

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Motivators & Behaviours in Land

Investment into Land: Key Motivators and Behaviours of Scottish Landowners

This report forms part of our work concerning decision-making around investment into land. It follows on from

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Investment Decision Making for Land

A Rapid Evidence Assessment of Investment Decision-Making for Land 

This report forms part of our research on land markets and land use change. It aims to understand whether recent land...[more]

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Land Valuation Formation Influences

This report forms part of our research on land markets and land use change. The project aims to understand...[more]

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Rural Land Values & Diversification

Rural Land Values and Land Diversification: This research briefing covers two key areas: how land is valued and what land ownership diversification means to different stakeholders involved in land. ...[more]

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Assessing Land Use Change

This report provides a review of behavioural models used to understand what motivates landowners and how they make decisions about land use change. It looks at the financial mechanisms used...[more]


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