This project uses an established conceptual framework for understanding transformational change in agriculture (the ‘Triggering Change Model’), to assess how substantive environmental changes in large land-holding trajectories can be enabled. Large landholders are high impact but ‘hard-to-reach’ and are brought into the research through Scottish Land and Estates, a popular membership organisation. Interviews assess change trajectories on large holdings, with a specific focus on succession processes (a well-recognised moment for change which is internal to the landholding unit). A workshop conducted with interview participants assesses the effectiveness of climate change mapping tools (a novel, external means of triggering change). Findings are analysed to identify best practice in supporting the managers of large land holdings to make transformational change, enabling industry organisations to better support their members, and provide a foundation for future research which integrate social and natural sciences.
Project lead: Naomi Beingessner (The James Hutton Institute)
Project collaborators: Large landowners recruited through Scottish Land and Estates (SLE), facilitated by Eleanor Kay (SLE Senior Policy Advisor), Annie McKee (The James Hutton Institute), Hannah Budge (The James Hutton Institute), Mike Rivington (The James Hutton Institute), Mohamed Jabloun (The James Hutton Institute) Noah Kelly (The James Hutton Institute), Lee-Ann Sutherland (The James Hutton Institute)
Project funder: UKRI Agri-food for Net Zero Network
