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Background and context
This briefing is the result of a joint project between SPICe and a research team from the University of Glasgow and Heriot Watt University, funded by SPICe and the ESRC.
The past year has been a particularly difficult time for agriculture. As Jim Fairlie said, the industry has struggled to cope with the issues that the UK’s exit from the EU has created, including additional paperwork and reduced labour supply for planting and harvesting crops.
By “opportunities for collaboration”, do you mean time or being allowed to do it? Time, space, infrastructure and having the leadership in place to allow that.
Under the old EU map—I am not quite sure whether it is still in force; it may not be—about a quarter of the UK population, and 41 per cent of the Scottish population, was covered at this point in time by assisted-area status and was on the map.