Soil fertility and botanical composition in surface-seeded swards in crofting areas of northern ScotlandYounie, DBlack, J SHunter, E A
9 RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook crofting Thesaurus Medical Legal Encyclopedia Wikipedia crofting (ˈkrɒftɪŋ) n (Agriculture)Britthe system or occupation of working land in crofts ...
is that croft is a fenced piece of land, especially in scotland, usually small and arable and used for small-scale food production and usually with a crofter's dwelling thereon while smallholding is (british)a piece of land, smaller than a farm, used for the cultivation of vegetables or ...
The article reports on the removal of the controversial occupancy condition on houses built in crofting areas from the draft of the Crofting Reform Bill by ministers in Scotland. The condition, which aims to prevent property speculation, was objected by local authorities and was referred by the ...
Small-scale land management is increasing throughout Scotland, but with evident regional distinctions. Upland and island holdings (many of which are crofts) have seen substantial reductions in their sheep numbers as part of the wider reduction in agricultural activity associated with 2005 Common ...
This paper summarizes legislation in Scotland (some in place for over a century) and Zimbabwe (some in place for fifteen years) relating to Crafting and Communal Areas - both of which are forms of what in this paper has been termed Communal Family Tenure. The effectiveness of legislation and...
LandScotlandRural areasKiserl Orvostud. 1962 Apr;14:174-8.doi:10.1108/rr.2002.16.1.31.33Sarah GashReference Reviews
In the context of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003, this paper examines the political possibilities that are created when land is removed as a commodity from circuits of global capital and when, in areas under crofting tenure, it comes under collective ownership. Drawing evidence from the ...
Highland‐Lowland migration in late eighteenth and nineteenth‐century Scotland was a response both to the economic opportunities of the urban and industrial Lowlands and to the break‐up of established agrarian systems in the rural Highlands. The Highlands was not, however, a uniform region, ...
In the UK, Scotland was the first administration to adopt a ‘wellbeing framework’ which was introduced in 2007 through the National Performance Framework (NPF) (Wallace, 2018). On the one hand, this has been considered ‘transformative’, however, from another perspective, the scale of change...