The events were well attended (over 50 people participated), with groups discussing different scenarios of extreme climate change in Scotland and this blog outlines many of the key points raised in the workshop discussions.
My long-standing interest in less-invasive techniques to study ruminant nutrition has developed into a range of projects looking at biomarkers in accessible samples - including milk, urine, faeces and breath. The work is highly relevant to two major technological developments in animal science (i) the need for cheap and high-throughput phenotyping to exploit new genomic information; and (ii) rapid advances in the use of monitoring and sensing equipment on-farm (precision livestock farming).
My overall research interest is to unravel the host animal genomic architecture affecting complex performance traits in livestock. At present my main research interest is to reveal the influence of the gut microbiome on methane emissions, feed conversion efficiency, meat quality, animal health and behavioural traits, and how the host animal shapes the microbiome associated with those traits.
There is still a lot of water to flow under the bridge before the scale and shape of future public funding to farmers and other land managers becomes clearer. But with Brexit rapidly approaching – and with each new model of theoretical scenarios suggesting that major changes to current support levels are inevitable – then one major topic of debate revolves around the suggestion that future support for land management will primarily be targeted at the provision of public goods.
This conference will seek to help inform and shape the debate about how best to reward farmers, foresters and other land managers for delivering public goods from their land management practices. In particular it will provide a forum to help develop thinking of practical implementation on the ground and what that means for policy development.
We are delighted that the Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform, Rosanna Cunnigham MSP is able to address the conference.
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This conference will consider some of the new challenges facing biodiversity conservation and the novel and innovative solutions biodiversity science can offer.
The conference will run from 13:00, Monday, 5 November to 13:00, Tuesday, 6 November. It will focus on four main themes:
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Decisions about natural resources need to balance multiple interests and goals in order to safeguard Scotland’s economic, social and environmental prosperity. However, many existing policies for the environment focus on separate problems, such as protecting endangered species or reducing water pollution: this may not automatically enable a joined-up approach to environmental management. Our research explores the interactions of a sample of ‘policy instruments’, including regulations, incentives and guidance,
My research focuses on the challenges of achieving more participatory and holistic natural resource management, with a particular focus on the Ecosystem Approach and the challenges of governing complex socio-ecological systems.
The James Hutton Institute
Craigiebuckler
Aberdeen AB15 8QH
Scotland UK
We first met Andrew Macdonald, ExhibitScotland, at the Royal Highland Show (RHS) in 2017. Staffing the Virtual Reality corner for RSPB in the Education tent, he first showed us his 360 film shot at Abernethy.