Scottish Rural Development Programme 2014-2020: Evaluation of Capital Grant Schemes: Annex A - Sector overview

Footnotes

1. Five EU funds: the EAFRD, the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the European Social Fund (ESF), the Cohesion Fund and the European Maritime and Fisheries Funds (EMFF).

2. Referred to as Areas facing Natural Constraints or ANCs.

3. Referred to as one grant scheme in the SRDP 2014-2020 Programme Document – Crofting and Small Farm Support Scheme. Subsequently separated into two grant schemes.

4. Agra CEAS Consulting Report for The Scottish Government, Ex-Ante Evaluation of Scotland’s Rural Development Programme 2014-2020, June 2014.

5. The SG definition of rurality is settlements of 3,000 people or less.

6. SRDP 2014-2020 Operational Programme Document V10.1.

7. SRDP 2014-2020 Operational Programme Document V10.1.

8. SRDP 2014-2020 Operational Programme Document V10.1.

9. Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on support for rural development by the EAFRD COM(2011) 627 final/2 and Article 48 of Regulation (EU) No (CSF/2012). It includes 30 investment articles governing the measures available to EU Member States and the type of activity that may be funded by the EU.

10. The Scottish Government plans to use this new framework to deliver its Vision for Agriculture. That document outlines the Scottish Government's wider agriculture policy aims. You can read more about why the Bill has been created in the Policy Memorandum.

11. NFU Scotland, Farming Facts, Scottish Farming

12. Scottish Agricultural Census, Supporting documents - Results from the Scottish Agricultural Census: June 2023

13. NFU Scotland, Farming Facts, Scottish Farming.

14. Scottish Government, Farm Business Survey 2018-2019: profitability of Scottish farming

15. Scottish Government, Farm Business Survey 2018-2019: profitability of Scottish farming

16. Scottish Government, Farm Business Survey 2018-2019: profitability of Scottish farming

17. Scottish Government, Farm Business Survey 2018-2019: profitability of Scottish farming

18. UK Government, Less Favoured Areas

19. Scotland’s Census 2022 - Ethnic group, national identity, language and religion | Scotland's Census

20. Farming Online, Farming News - Scotland’s 2016 cereal harvest is expected to fall 11 per cent on 2015

21. Scottish Agricultural Census, 2023.

22. These are non-occupier workers – either a hired member of staff, a family member or partner of the occupier (does not include occupiers).

23. These are non-occupier workers – either a hired member of staff, a family member or partner of the occupier (does not include occupiers).

24. Scottish Government, Supply, Use and Input-Output Tables, November 2023.

25. Scottish Annual Business Statistics, Scottish Annual Business Statistics 2021

26. We have uprated to 2024 prices using Office for National Statistics Gross Domestic Product Deflator.

27. Farming Online, Farming News - Scotland’s 2016 cereal harvest is expected to fall 11 per cent on 2015