Deliverables

This document is an output of the policy-led analysis within the Land Use Transformations (LUT)
research project (C3-JHI-1) part of the 2022-27 Scottish Government (SG) Strategic Research
Programme (SRP).  This report presents outputs from the second of the Quantitative Story Telling
(QST) processes focused on options for changes to the way farm support payments are distributed
across Scotland and between sectors or size classes, referred to here as “regionalisation options”.

Regionalisation Options - Project Overview presentation for ARIOB. 

Regionalisation Options - Scenario Builder - Worked Example

Regionalisation Options - Specific Scenarios

Regionalisation Options - Scenario Builder & Dashboards presentation.

Regionalisation Options - Baselines and Characterisations presentation

Regionalisation Options - Project Overview presentation for Scottish Government. 

This report presents analysis of a set of options for updating how Scotland is divided into regions for the purposes of making direct agricultural support payments to farmers and crofters. The research is part of the 2022-27 Strategic Research Programme (SRP) and was conducted by James Hutton Institute staff from the Land Use Transformations project working with Scottish Government (SG) colleagues in RESAS and RPID.

For this technical report, we analysed responses from 16 responses to 17 government consultations related to land use. Following this analysis, we conducted 9 interviews with representatives from most of these organisations. The analysis explores various stakehold.ers’ views about what rural land in Scotland is for, what environmental and social issues are most concerning, and what should be done about those to reach a desired land use future.

This 4-minute digital story shows various stakeholders’ views about what rural land in Scotland is for, what environmental and social issues are most concerning, and what should be done about those to reach a desired land use future. It is a summary of the technical report "Visions for Future Land Use in Scotland: Technical Report on Different Views on Land Use/Land Use Change".