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David's work is concerned with sustainable and healthy diets, and how behaviour change may be accomplished in all parts of the food system. He is currently studying the pathways to healthy and sustainable diets in Scotland. Using a wide toolkit of qualitative methods, David is unpicking the barriers, whether real or perceived, to diet change. Previously, he has worked in the University of Aberdeen Environmental Modelling Group, looking at agricultural practices in China and Ethiopia.
Renata is a research fellow at the Rowett Institute with an interest in using analytical chemistry tools like LC-MS combined with omics sciences, such as metabolomics, lipidomics, and proteomics, to study metabolism and nutrition in metabolic diseases, as well as food safety. Her background is in exercise science, using metabolomic and lipidomic approaches to understand how exercise changes the metabolism of people with chronic conditions like obesity and type 2 diabetes. Currently, she is working on a project to develop metabolomics and proteomics tools to identify the provenance of
On the 14 th of February the Office for National Statistics (ONS) announced that the overall annual inflation for January 2024 was still at 4 per cent, as in December 2023. However, it was also announced that the food inflation figure for January represented the first monthly fall in food prices since 2021 ( BBC, 2024). This is very good news as food has been one of the leading sectors contributing to the higher-to-the-target overall price inflation. Although, it is better to take a look at annual levels of inflation instead of monthly figures, due to the presence of seasonality. Figure 1
Scotland’s pork sector is under financial pressure. This report presents a model that could help policymakers to assess the different possibilities to improve the producers’ situation. The model can be used to approximate the impact of changes in variables such as input prices or output prices on the level of Scottish pork production.
Scotland’s pork sector is under financial pressure. One way to address this could be to increase the value added to Scottish pork. This case study, which focusses on a Scottish pork producer, provides insights into an enterprise serving the high value pork products market and the challenges it faces. This is one of three reports on different aspects of the high value pork market. The others are a case study examining attributes for which consumers appear willing to pay and a model to help calibrate trade-offs producers may need to make. Highlighting where efficiencies can be made in producing
Executive summary detailing the properties of Scottish Hemp Oil for project RI-B1-01
Agriculture is a devolved competence and post-Brexit the Scottish Government (SG) chose to make its own arrangements for replacing support payments to farmers which were previously governed through the European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill was introduced to the Scottish Parliament on 28 September 2023. The Bill commits SG to consult on the nature of the support, the purposes of which are the adoption and use of sustainable and regenerative agricultural practices, the production of high-quality food, the facilitation of on-farm nature
The 4th edition of The Spark, SEFARI Gateway’s newsletter, a monthly update on the latest research developments from the Scottish Government’s Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture (ENRA) strategic research programme.
This booklet provides insights into some of the soils research undertaken and the positive benefits it delivers to Scotland, UK and Global soil health, biodiversity productivity and climate resilience.