Policy Support
The LADSS team have been working on the following policy support projects:
- Areas of Natural Constraint Working Group
- CAP Regionalisation Workstream
- An analysis of the Land Capability for Agriculture (LCA) for each Agricutural Parish
- Determining the land use and farm-type mixes of land capability for agriculture class groupings in the regions of Scotland and the characteristics of holdings containing both land capability for agriculture classes 1 to 5.3 and 6.1 to 7 land.
- Stocking Rates of Land Capability for Agriculture Classes
- Estimating the stocking rate characteristics of groupings of Macaulay LCA classes in the regions of Scotland.
- Supplementary analysis of the stocking rate characteristics of the Phase 3 land defined by the WEAG-GIS project.
- Redistributing Single Farm Payment: Options and Consequences - presentation at Knowledge Scotland event “A bright future for Scottish agriculture after CAP reform?” in Edinburgh on Friday 24 February. During the event, the JHI team took the opportunity to display the following posters highlighting current research activities: poster 1, poster 2, poster 3
- Future CAP Payments - estimating the area potentially eligible for Single Farm Payment
- Pack Inquiry Support - testing the LCA and LFA as a basis for Pillar I CAP payments
- Estimating GHG Emissions – testing the feasibility of making annual estimates of GHG emissions from the land use change/forestry sector data from the Integrated Accounting and Control System
- Analysis of SAF & JAC - using data from the Single Application Form to derive data to be used in the June Agricultural Census with colleagues from REAS-Statistics
A key development for the team has been participating in the EU FP7 project SMILE (Synergies in Multi-scale Inter-Linkages of Eco-Social Systems). Here we are applying Social Metabolism Approaches (SMA) to assess sustainability. SMA provides a rigorous, consistent and holistic overview of system performance underpinned by detailed indicators of the extent and intensity of resource use.