Historic CAP Analyses

• Areas of Natural Constraint Working Group
  • Estimating the stocking rates for areas with environmental designations in Scotland (PDF file 2.99 MB).
• CAP Regionalisation Workstream
  • An analysis of the Land Capability for Agriculture (LCA) for each Agricutural Parish (PDF file 3.4 MB).
  • Determining the land use and farm-type mixes of land capability for agriculture class groupings in the regions of Scotland and the characteristics of holdings containing both land capability for agriculture classes 1 to 5.3 and 6.1 to 7 land (PDF file 6.4 MB)).
• Stocking Rates of Land Capability for Agriculture Classes
  • Estimating the stocking rate characteristics of groupings (PDF file 3.3 MB) of Macaulay LCA classes in the regions of Scotland.
  • Supplementary analysis of the stocking rate characteristics of the Phase 3 land defined by the WEAG-GIS project (PDF file: 2.8 MB).
• Redistributing Single Farm Payment: Options and Consequences (PDF file 2.6 MB) – presentation at Knowledge Scotland event “A bright future for Scottish agriculture after CAP reform?” in Edinburgh on Friday 24 February 2012. During the event, the James Hutton Institute team took the opportunity to display the following posters highlighting current research activities: poster 1 (PDF file 5.9 MB), poster 2 (PDF file 5.7 MB), poster 3 (PDF file 6.5 MB).
• Future CAP Payments (PDF file 1.8 MB) – estimating the area potentially eligible for Single Farm Payment.
• Pack Inquiry Support (PDF file 21 MB)– testing the LCA and LFA as a basis for Pillar I CAP payments.
• Analysis of SAF and JAC – using data from the Single Application Form to derive data to be used in the June Agricultural Census with colleagues from RESAS Statistics.