Rural Policy Centre

New policy spotlight: ‘Free’ Farrowing: Exploring different international farrowing regulations, industry- and market-led initiatives

This policy spotlight by Dr Emma Baxter summarises the current political situation globally relating to farrowing crate regulations, as well as industry-led initiatives that show the trend towards investment in temporary crating systems.

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The Centre operates as a focus for research and knowledge exchange work in rural policy, informing and contributing to policy debates through:

Conducting research projects
Issuing regular briefings based on recent research and policy developments
Organising high profile events

Through our work, we aim to improve understandings of rural Scotland and to raise its profile nationally and internationally.

Learn more about our work through the links below.

About the Rural Policy Centre

Our Rural Policy Centre is a knowledge hub for rural Scotland. Spanning SRUC, we engage with our consultants, educators and researchers to harness the latest rural knowledge.

Rural Policy Centre research & analysis

Our research and analysis results in a broad range of projects for the Rural Policy Centre.

Rural policy resources

The Rural Policy Centre's publications are organised into four themes, Environment & climate; Land use & land reform; Food, health & wellbeing; Rural economies & communities.