The James Hutton Institute

We are a world-lead­ing inde­pen­dent sci­en­tif­ic research organ­i­sa­tion based in Scot­land but work­ing in col­lab­o­ra­tion across the globe.

Our pio­neer­ing sci­ence inno­vates and finds solu­tions for the chal­lenges posed by the cli­mate and nature crises on the sus­tain­abil­i­ty and resilience of our crops, land, nat­ur­al resources and com­mu­ni­ties through the devel­op­ment of trans­for­ma­tive tools, inter­ven­tions, prod­ucts and land man­age­ment practices.

Our research is unique in that it is test­ed in labs and also at land­scape scale on our farms, com­bines the nat­ur­al and socio-eco­nom­ic sci­ences and con­sid­ers the con­nec­tions between crops, resources and people.

With the vfi we will inten­si­fy our research- and lab­o­ra­to­ry activ­i­ties to devel­op solu­tions to enlarge the palette of urban food pro­duc­tion solutions.

Ramin Ebrahim­ne­jad is the Busi­ness Devel­op­ment Man­ag­er at the Advanced Plant Growth Cen­tre (APGC) with­in James Hut­ton Group. He is “fer­vent­ly ded­i­cat­ed to advanc­ing sus­tain­able agri­cul­tur­al prac­tices, pro­mot­ing equi­table eco­nom­ic growth, and par­tic­u­lar­ly focus­ing on plant vari­ety devel­op­ment for cli­mate change mit­i­ga­tion and envi­ron­men­tal conservation.”