Forestry and woodlands
A limited number of free Farm Woodland Assessments are being offered across the Central Scotland Green Network area.
The Central Scotland Green Network (CSGN) Trust are offering the assessments on behalf of Forestry Commission Scotland to help farms and estates identify opportunities for new and existing woodland to support their farm businesses.
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Angus delegates, interested in driving forward rural skills in Angus, participated in a learning visit to Fife Rural Skills partnership recently.
It was really useful to hear how the work of the partnership has developed over the last few years and a number of new connections were made.
One Angus delegate said:
"I was inspired by today's visit and see many opportunities for work to be developed in Angus."
The SRUC Rural Policy Centre has launched its Rural Scotland in Focus 2016 report.
The report provides a fast-track to up-to-date evidence and commentary on key topics of rural and national importance, in order to inform policy, practice and research.
Rural Scotland in Focus 2016 is the fourth report in the series, and was launched at an event in Edinburgh on 29 November attended by over 90 people.
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Mike Strachan from Forestry Commission Scotland reports on the European Innovation Partnership (EIP) workshop on 'New value chains from multi-functional forests held in Vienna on 10 and 11 November 2016.
The European Innovation Partnership (EIP) aims to bridge the gap between Research and Practice in Agriculture, Food and Forestry across Europe. I was fortunate to be invited to attend the workshop in Vienna where I helped to lead discussions on the role of Agroforestry in supporting value chains. Eighty participants from 21 countries attended.
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- Read more about Building a transnational capacity-building network for common land graziers – taking the first steps
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Creation of a formal capacity-building, experience-sharing, mutually-supportive and collaboration-catalysing network for graziers of common and communal land and their organisations from across Europe.
The latest newsletter from the European Innovation Partnerships in agriculture and forestry (EIP-AGRI) is now available.
Farmers and foresters from all over the European Union are trying out new ideas and finding solutions to problems with the help of researchers, vets and others.
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