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To many people, from the public to politicians, the RBGE is first and foremost a garden. A source of beauty and inspiration about the natural world. But it didn’t start out that way and that certainly isn’t all it’s about today. Hidden away behind the Edinburgh garden is a warren of corridors hiding state-of-the-art laboratories, overflowing research glasshouses, buzzing classrooms, and around three million dried plant specimens, not to mention the all-important social hub that is the canteen. This is the domain of the RBGE’s scientists, and I used to be one of them, working on diverse
This case study summarises ongoing work exploring how changes in the population of remote and rural areas in Scotland affect the social, economic and ecological resilience of these areas. The Sparsely Populated Areas (SPA) of Scotland have a demographic legacy which, in the absence of intervention, will result in decades of population decline, and shrinkage of its working-age population, on a scale which implies serious challenges for economic development, and consequences for its landscape and ecology which are poorly understood. The SPA does not equal rural Scotland – demographic projections
"Since potato farming provides livelihood to a significant section of India's agricultural community, we are hopeful that our tie-up with Technico will help these communities effectively" The James Hutton Institute's commercial subsidiary, James Hutton Limited, has entered into a five-year agreement with Technico Agri Sciences, a subsidiary of Indian company ITC Limited, for the provision of 16 potato varieties and 600 clones to be trialled and tested in India. It is hoped that the introduction of new potato varieties will benefit India's potato growers and industry by addressing the demand of
Heritage gardens play an important role in plant conservation. They house collections gathered over decades or even hundreds of years, including varieties of plants that may be overlooked elsewhere, fostering heirloom varieties and preserving biological diversity that is the raw material of adaptation. As well as being beautiful and tranquil sites of cultural heritage, as many of you will know that have already visited them, they are also treasure troves of biological diversity. Arduaine Gardens shows us that tough choices can be necessary and important to preserve these collections and the