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- Implications of Changing Public Sector Budgets for Rural Scotland
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- Rural Scotland In Focus Report 2010
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- Hot Topics
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- Insight into current policy issues
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SAC Rural Policy Centre
Remote Post Office, Balchrick, Sutherland (opens in new window)
The Rural Policy Centre (RPC) aims to:
- Examine the impact of current policies on rural businesses and communities
- Provide the knowledge required for the development of future rural policies
In order to achieve this, the Centre brings together expertise from across SAC, drawing in staff with experience in research, learning and consultancy.
The RPC's activities and outputs cover the breadth of SAC’s work.
This includes topics such as agricultural competitiveness and productivity, renewable energy, food consumption and marketing, animal welfare, community development and resilience, biodiversity and environmental change.
Links to some of our recent work are provided below.
What’s new from the RPC?
- Rural Scotland in Focus 2012 to be launched on Monday 28th May
- Rural Parliaments in Europe (Jan 2012)
- New report on sustainable intensification in Scotland (Mar 2012)
- Presentations from 'A Bright Future...' Conference now available (Mar 2012)
- 'Power in Agriculture’ report launched at the Oxford Farming Conference (Jan 2012)