Food & Farming

The Food and Farming Group works to achieve their vision of sustainable agricultural systems that produce supplies of safe healthy food, protect natural resources and enhance wildlife, habitats and cultural heritage, and provide jobs in rural areas, contributing to a diverse rural economy.

The Food and Farming Group has a number of active members, a full list is shown below.

Convener

Pete Ritchie

Vice-Convener

David McKay

Staff Liaison

Dan Paris

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Environmental representatives walk away from failed farming policy process

17 Dec 2025

Representatives of leading environmental organisations including Scottish Environment LINK and RSPB Scotland have today resigned from the Scottish Government’s farming policy group, saying the urgent need to help farmers and crofters tackle climate change and nature loss is being ignored.  Representatives are standing down from both the Agriculture Reform Implementation Oversight Board (ARIOB) and the […]

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Nature and net zero go hand in hand

16 Jul 2025

By Dr Deborah Long, Chief Executive at Scottish Environment LINK We live on a small island on the edge of the Atlantic ocean. Our landscape is highly diverse. There are very few other places in the world where you can physically walk from rainforest to alpine meadows in one day. But in Scotland you can. […]

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Environmental charities welcome long-term action plan to reverse nature loss

27 Nov 2024

A coalition of environmental charities has welcomed the publication of Scotland’s Strategic Framework for Biodiversity that outlines the Scottish government’s action plan to halt and reverse nature loss. This strategy and accompanying delivery plan, alongside the Natural Environment Bill and legal targets for nature recovery, sets the stage for urgent action to address Scotland’s biodiversity […]

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