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The Scottish Society for Crop Research (SSCR) hosted a dinner in November to celebrate 100 years of coordinated crop research and plant breeding in Scotland.
This years’ ISRR Dundee root medal and workshop on “Breeding crops for marginal conditions with an emphasis on roots” took place on the 6th November 2024.
Dr Hannah Rudman, Senior Research Fellow at the James Hutton Institute, has been appointed co-chair of the Scottish Forum on Natural Capital.
Scotia bring together people with experience of interdisciplinary approaches to food production who seek a balanced judgement of the long-term effects of innovation on the conservation of the land in Scotland.
A great day was had by all on Monday the 23rd September 2024 at Our Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh. At the Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture Research Portfolio (ENRA) Science Evidence and Policy Conference.
I took part in a panel organised by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) to promote and discuss their report, Inquiry into Public Financial Support for Tree Planting and Forestry.
Kerry Waylen, Social Researcher at the James Hutton Institute, discusses how the 45th MDT Lecture by Professor Gretchen Daily can allow us to reflect on how we protect and relate to Scotland’s natural environment and it’s ‘natural capital.’
The UK CropDiversity High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster, managed by The James Hutton Institute, is helping supercharge science in the UK.
Pit latrines form the backbone of sanitation systems for much of sub-Saharan Africa, but while reducing open defecation, they can also be problematic for public health when not built or managed suitably.
It may have felt cold this June, following May and this Spring’s record warm temperatures. In fact it was only the 26th coldest June on record at the James Hutton Institute’s Invergowrie campus since 1954.
