How can alternative land ownership models support a sustainable food transition? This new TABLE essay explores examples from the Netherlands for Scotland - Europe's most private land-concentrated country - with unique legal infrastructure for recognizing community ownership.
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Hutton at the ESP Europe 2026 tinyurl.com/398b7593 - Simone Martino, Kirsty Blackstock, Kerry Waylen (SEGS) & Alessandro Gimona (ICS) - presenting on Nature-based Solutions, justice, transformation, natural capital & participatory valuation. Insights from ScotGov and Horizon projects.
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#KnowledgeExchange amongst #Nature-based Solutions policymakers and practitioners during National @merlin-project.bsky.social Day. From leaky dams to blended finance, we discussed how to upscale freshwater #NbS @ukceh.bsky.social @naturescot.bsky.social @forthriverstrust.bsky.social
Professor Tialda Haartsen's gave a seminar in our Department a few weeks ago about internal #migration patterns of rural young adults in the Netherlands and it's now available on YouTube, posted by the @rgsibg.bsky.social Population Geography Research Group.
Watch the Seminar 👉 youtu.be/6cyqfxAt8SQ
The MERLIN Symposium brought together diverse voices from across sectors to share four years of learning from the Forth Catchment. Check @forthriverstrust.bsky.social's post on LinkedIn:
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🔗 Forth Catchment case study (MERLIN CS17): project-merlin.eu/cs-portal/ca...
Fully funded PhD opportunity exploring how ideas of the “ideal migrant” shape responses to demographic challenges in rural & island Scotland. Jointly hosted by the University of St Andrews and The James Hutton Institute.
🔍 Learn more & apply here: tinyurl.com/3nhwrhb9
Great #Hutton #SEGS presence at the 100th #Agricultural Economics Society conference in Oxford. Colleagues discussed #JUSTLANZ on farmers’ capacity for Net Zero, Scottish farmers’ agri-environment scheme preferences, and H2020 FoodLAND on links between farming, migration and food security in Africa.
'Rural futures start at the European Rural Parliament, where local insights meet European policymaking'.
Glad to contribute with the #GRANULAR Horizon Europe project, exploring how data, dialogue, and local knowledge can shape more inclusive and sustainable rural futures.
#ERP2025 #RuralInnovation
Call for abstracts! Submit your work to the CORDiALL Conference on Digital Agriculture — April 14–17, 2026, Montpellier, France. Explore AI, low-cost tech, policy, inclusion & more. Deadline: Oct 14, 2025
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As part of Scotland’s Land Reform Futures Project, our @hannahbudge.bsky.social joined @srucnews.bsky.social and the Stakeholder Advisory Group in the Netherlands to learn from alternative land models and sector leaders on #landaccess, land-use decision-making and collaboration.
YouTube video by Population Geography Research Group
Many of Scotland’s rural and island communities are experiencing long-term patterns of demographic decline. National policies and strategies, including the National Islands Plan and the Addressing Dep...
🌿 MERLIN Symposium – Sharing Four Years of Learning in the Forth Catchment 🌿
On 26th September, partners and stakeholders gathered for the MERLIN Symposium, celebrating three years of work in the Fo...
