Food & Footprint

The route to net zero is different for every business, typically requiring action on equipment, processes, decision making, and business culture amongst other things. Even once these are addressed, there might be unavoidable emissions that you can’t manage out and that need to be offset.

Alongside these challenges, there are huge opportunities for those willing to commit to the journey, for example efficiencies, new sources of finance, new products and markets and opportunities to differentiate. The route can seem daunting, even impossible – especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) who do not have significant in-house expertise and capacity.

Our integrated offering means we offer the breadth and depth of consultancy needed, whilst our history and values give us invaluable on-the-ground experience and appreciation of the unique purpose and needs of land-based and food and drink businesses.

By drawing on the cutting-edge knowledge and technology of the wider SRUC, and combining that with an appreciation of the economic and practical realities of business, we are your full-service sustainability partner for the journey ahead.

Through our highly regarded farm carbon calculator, Agrecalc, we can help clients quantify and improve the emissions of their food and drink supply chain from field to fork. This shows that our roots are in the land-based and food and drink sectors.

Land is now expected to deliver a very wide range of good and services, many of them environmental, and therefore our services have broadened to reflect this. We work across Scotland, the UK and internationally, with a client base that includes estates, co-operatives, processors, retailers, environmental non-governmental organisations, the public sector and investors.