Rural economy
#Route2050 On Track for Rural Scotland
Author / Creator: Scottish Land and Estates
Media type: Report
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Food production, climate change and biodiversity ‘vital’ in Scotland’s future agricultural support regime
National Good Food Nation Plan
Author / Creator: Scottish Government
Media type: Article
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The national Good Food Nation Plan sets out six over-arching Outcomes for a Good Food Nation; the range of targets and indicators that will be used to gauge progress towards achieving them; and details of a wide range of food-related policies and initiatives from across the Scottish Government.
Time for a Scottish islands typology?
Author / Creator: Kirsten Gow
Media type: Article
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From the outside, life in a Scottish island might seem like a common experience. How different could living in Burray be to living in Barra, you might wonder? How much difference is there really between neighbouring islands like Coll and Tiree?
Finance and the Growing UrbanRural Divide
Author / Creator: Samuel MacKinnon
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: 2019
The rural economy is subject to more frequent, cyclical crises, as well as problems in areas such as land and resource management.
Work the Land: The Employment Potential of Land Reform
Author / Creator: Robin McAlpine
Date published: 2021
This paper argues against claims that land reform would harm rural employment and seeks to illustrate the kind of jobs that could be created instead and the positive impact radical land reform would have on employment and on wages in rural areas
Carbon-free, Poverty-free
Author / Creator: Keith Baker Dr Ron Mould Dr Craig Dalzell Jonathon Shafi
Media type: Report
Date published: 2019
Fuel poverty is not only worse in rural Scotland than in urban Scotland, it also has different characteristics
Rural Scotland Business Panel Survey October 2022
Author / Creator: Scottish Government
Media type: Survey
Date published: 2022
Economic optimism over the past 6 months (July 2022) has decreased from the previous survey.
Rural Lives: Retaining Diverse Populations
Author / Creator: Rebecca Kay
Media type: Video
Date published: 2022
There are ways of attracting and retaining diverse rural populations.
Who Owns Scotland
Author / Creator: Andy Wightman
Media type: Website
Date published: 2022 -
Who Owns Scotland is a project designed to provide information about who owns land in Scotland.
Land Reform: Re-Shaping Scotland’s Social Landscape
Author / Creator: Dylan Howel
Media type: News Item
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Scotland has one of the most concentrated patterns of private land ownership in the developed world. Just 450 people own over half of the private land in Scotland. This entitlement has survived un-challenged for 500 years, a privilege that has its roots in royal favours and aristocratic archetypes
Carbon-Free, Povetery-Free: Heating Options for Rural Scotland
Author / Creator: Ron Mould, Craig Dalzell, Jonathan Shafi
Media type: Policy Paper
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Fuel poverty is not only worse in rural Scotland than in urban Scotland, it also has different characteristics. Fuel poverty plays a much larger role in rural poverty than in urban poverty. By far the biggest driver of this fuel poverty is not being on the gas grid.