Scotland’s new research “super institute” is launched on Tuesday, with the job of tackling some of the world’s most challenging problems including climate change and threats to food and water security.
The James Hutton Institute at the Royal Society of Edinburgh brings together the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute in Aberdeen and SCRI, Scotland’s centre for crop research and breeding, based at Invergowrie near Dundee.
The new research organisation will employ more than 600 scientists, researchers and support staff, making it one of the biggest institutes of its type in Europe and a potential world-leader in agricultural and environmental science.