Lorna Pate
Scotland’s Rural College
Peter Wilson Building, The King's Buildings
West Mains Road
Edinburgh
EH9 3JG
Biography
I am a farm management researcher working in the Future Farming Systems Group. I am interested in using an holistic and multidisciplinary approach to improve understanding of how farmers manage the multiple risks they encounter.
The management decisions that farmers make can be complex and multifaceted, for example effects on the landscape as well as food production. Thus, it is important not to study individual decisions in isolation as in many cases a decision choice can have an impact on the whole farm business.
Decisions about animal welfare are of particular interest as a result of my background in working in this area.
Leading Ideas
Agricultural Systems and Land Management
Area of Strategic Research Programme
Further information the Scottish Government's Strategic Research Programme is available
Theme 2: Productive and sustainable land management and Rural Economies
2.3 - Productive and Sustainable Land Management
2.3.12 Increasing uptake of best practice