Sustainable and regenerative agriculture: code of practice

Section 5: Links to Guidance and Further Reading

• Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Act 2024 Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Act 2024
• Vision for Agriculture
• Future Support Framework The future of agricultural support
• Agricultural Reform Route Map
• Whole Farm Plan (ruralpayments.org)
• RPID scheme guidance All schemes (ruralpayments.org)
• ARP Glossary Agriculture Reform Glossary
• National targets for climate change and biodiversity
• Regenerative Agriculture in the UK
• Bracken guidance UK Best Practice Guidance - Bracken Management | NatureScot
• The National Flood Resilience Strategy https://www.gov.scot/isbn/9781836911685
• Nature Scot paper Farmland and Lowland Ecosystems Group - Biodiversity on hill and upland farms.pdf (nature.scot)
• Regenerative Agriculture - Keeping soil covered (farmingforabetterclimate.org)
• Winter Cover Crops: Enhancing Soil Health and Management
• Increase soil organic matter – Farming
• Study by Professor Pippa Chapman University of Leeds The impact of hedges maturation on soil organic carbon stocks in agricultural landscapes - Astrophysics Data System
• Nature Friendly Farming Network NFFN_report_v7.1.pdf
• Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE) Journey to Net Zero a Guide to Action Reports (rase.org.uk)
• Environmentally Sustainable Agriculture (parliament.uk)
• What is ‘sustainable and regenerative agriculture’? With guest expert Dr Lorna Cole – SPICe Spotlight | Solas air SPICe (spice-spotlight.scot)
• The potential for an agroecological approach in Scotland: policy brief (climatexchange.org.uk)
• Food and Agriculture of the United Nations – One Health Home (fao.org)
• World Health Organisation – One Health One health (who.int)
• One Health Commission What is One Health? - One Health Commission
• One Welfare About One Welfare - One Welfare (onewelfareworld.org)
• Codes Of Practice For The Welfare Of Cattle
• PEPFAA Code - Farming and Water Scotland .
• Review: The Five Domains model and promoting positive welfare in pigs - ScienceDirect )
• Improving Air Quality | Farming Connect (gov.wales)
• Global Farm Metric
• Unilever’s Sustainable Agriculture Code
• Sustainable Food Trust
• Levels of Regenerative agriculture https://ethansoloviev.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Levels-of-Regenerative-Agriculture.pdf
• Soils - Soils Archives - Farming and Water Scotland
• Water Environment - Know The Rules - Farming and Water Scotland
• General Binding Rules - New General Binding Rules on Silage & Slurry What's changed? - Farming and Water Scotland
• SG’s 2024 PEPFAA Code at Soils - Farming and Water Scotland.
• See also Valuing your soils - Farming and Water Scotland
• Field Drains - Field Drains - Farming and Water Scotland and Field Ditches & Dredging - Farming and Water Scotland
• Treating Water - Treating water with SuDS - Farming and Water Scotland and Rural Sustainable Drainage Systems: A practical design and build guide for Scotland's farmers and landowners
• Diffuse Pollution - Diffuse Pollution - Farming and Water Scotland for definition.
• Water Margins - Managing Water Margins - Farming and Water Scotland
• Buffer Zones - 3D Buffer Zones | Helping farmers in Scotland | Farm Advisory Service and Better Buffer Design, Placement and Management | CREW | Scotland's Centre of Expertise for Waters.
• Treating water - Treating water with SuDS - Farming and Water Scotland.
• Natural Flood Management - Natural Flood Management - Farming and Water Scotland and fas.scot/downloads/water-management-on-your-farm-re-connection-to-floodplain/
• Rivers and Restoration - The Benefits of Waterway Restoration for Farmers | Helping farmers in Scotland | Farm Advisory Service
• Farming and Water - The 4 Point Plan - Farming and Water Scotland; Managing Dirty Water Around the Steading - Farming and Water Scotland; Managing slurry on farm - Farming and Water Scotland and statutory requirements FWS Managing-livestock_compressed.pdf.
• Managing Water - Managing Dirty Water Around the Steading - Farming and Water Scotland and Rural Sustainable Drainage Systems: A practical design and build guide for Scotland's farmers and landowners.
• Water Buffers - Better Buffer Design, Placement and Management | CREW | Scotland's Centre of Expertise for Waters;
• Slurry application - Moving to more sustainable methods of slurry application: implications for water quality of waterbodies and water protected areas | CREW | Scotland's Centre of Expertise for Waters;
• Diffuse Pollution - A state of knowledge overview of identified pathways of diffuse pollutants to the water environment | CREW | Scotland's Centre of Expertise for Waters;
• NVZ - Nitrate Vulnerable Zones - Agriculture and the environment - gov.scot;
• Drainage systems - Rural Sustainable Drainage Systems: A practical design and build guide for Scotland's farmers and landowners.