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This project aims to understand how to influence consumers to make long-term changes in dietary behaviours, more specifically, assess UK and international approaches to driving long-term changes in dietary behaviour at population level and understand facilitators and barriers for consumers to make healthier and more sustainable food choices, with a focus on reducing health inequalities.
We aim to address the risks posed by pathogens and pests for sustainable production of potato and soft fruits that are of great importance to Scotland. The project is highly interdisciplinary and utilises established expertise in plant and pathogen genomics, genetics, phenotyping and cell biology, through to breeding.
Working with public and private data sources, we are developing new systems to integrate data to help develop, test and identify implementation routes for national level livestock improvement tools.
This project is modelling scenarios of alternative livestock futures for Scotland and identifying appropriate improvement tools to get there considering policy and sustainability of the transition paths.
This project uses existing and new data on farm businesses to provide a baseline of basic and best practice adoption in Scotland that can be used to evaluate future change. Using information provided by farmers in surveys and workshops, it also aims to identify opportunities for promoting best practice uptake across the agricultural sector to achieve enhanced agricultural productivity while reducing the overall impact on the environment.
This project is providing evidence for understanding factors leading to demonstrable change in innovation and investment in Scottish food supply chains, in particular the role of policy and government support through (1) mapping and (2) ranking incentives to innovation uptake by their effectiveness; and (3) developing models of support to innovation uptake at supply chain level feeding into an innovation uptake incentive framework at sectoral level.
This project evaluates the impact of dietary health interventions for improving Scotland's diet and nutrition, and investigates whether and how their impact varies over time and across demographic groups. It also investigates potential unintended consequences of implementing the dietary interventions (for example, increased health inequalities).
This project consists of an analysis of the Scottish demand for fruits and vegetables to help produce a detailed set of scenarios and recommendations about the scope and potential value of increasing soft fruit and vegetable production in Scotland. We are addressing topics such as: consumers' willingness to buy products out of season, consumers' interest on alternative to supermarkets retailing models, consumers' provenance preferences, and interest in plant-based products.
This project is developing tools and a framework to serve as the basis for future reviewing of the resilience of supply chains. These tools are used to understand the vulnerabilities and strengths within the Scottish food and drink supply chain – as a whole and sub-industry specific. The supply chains we are considering are pigs, beef, dairy and potatoes. Finally, within each supply chain, the project is identifying practical applications of the framework to demonstrate the value of investment and novel forms of intervention.
This project is generating a new practical understanding of how current Scottish food production matches or differs compared to consumption patterns of Scottish households. We are using the information about the mismatch between local supply and demand to identify opportunities for increased food security and generating insights between what is produced and what should be consumed based on recommendations. We are also identifying how climate change may affect the local food supply and discuss how to deliver increased resilience.