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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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- 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?
- 'Power in Agriculture’ report launched at the Oxford Farming Conference (Jan 2012)
- ‘Response from the hills’ report published (Dec 2011)
- Two new Policy Briefings on recent developments in rural policy in Scotland and England (Nov 2011)
- Briefing on the factors affecting the energy use behaviour of Scottish residents (Oct 2011)