As far back as the 1970s we were involved in flax production, a crop that used to be grown widely in Scotland but fell out of favour due to competition from cotton and synthetic fibres.
RURACTIVE aims to promote equitable and sustainable change in rural areas by developing and testing smart, community-led, tailor-made, place-based and inclusive solutions within local “Multi-Actor Rural Innovation Ecosystems”
We are proud to announce our participation in Crop Protection Strategies for the Transition to Environmentally-Friendly Agriculture (CROPSAFE).
An article published in the Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies has shown how Malawi’s water storage has been changing over time.
UK food and nutrition security during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic “World-leading research to provide government, business and decision makers
We know that whisky is a valuable commodity to Scotland and the wider UK economy. The facts speak for themselves. In 2024 1.4 billion bottles of Scottish whisky were exported, contributing a total of £5.4 billion to the UK economy.
Rachel Reeves’s Spending Review on 11 June 2025 included a commitment to spend up to £750 million on a new supercomputer at Edinburgh University. This is a very welcome change from the announcement in August 2024 that the project would be cut, and has important implications for The James Hutton Institute’s research in Information and Computational Sciences.
The James Hutton Institute, along with its partners, Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) and Agrii, is delighted to announce its sponsorship for Potatoes in Practice.
This experiment is investigating whether increasing the number of plant species in grazed grasslands can help other biodiversity and increase the quality of the forage.
We all like a raspberry, strawberry or blueberry – who doesn’t? But what if we never had access to these fruits?
