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- In November 2023, Kirsty Blackstock gave an invited presentation on the results and what they mean for the European Year of Skills agenda during the EUROMONTANA “Skills for Mountains in Transitions” conference in Brussels 21st November, for more information, see the final report and slides here. Our intervention was to stress the need for relational and governance skills as well as technical skills.
- In March 2024, we joined our partners in Cordoba, Spain to have a final in person project meeting, where we shared common findings. We visited the Spanish Olive Oil and Iberico Ham mountain value chain producers, which was very inspiring and also shared their delicious products.
- The results were also used to help deliver a Scottish Government project on water scarcity projections including impacts on distilleries, with final reports available here.
- In June 2024, Kirsty Blackstock gave an invited presentation on the results and what they mean for Post 2027 EU policies, the meeting report and presentations can be found here.
- Research to identify positive strategies that value actors can take to make their value-chain assemblages more resilient has been completed. Read the deliverable https://www.moving-h2020.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/MOVING_D4.6_Upgrading-Strategies.pdf]
- Easy to read information on the different case studies can be found in the practice abstracts published in August 2023 https://www.moving-h2020.eu/library/
- Our latest summary of the Speyside case can be read here https://www.moving-h2020.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/23-MOVING_PA_UK.pdf – summarising how Whisky, Food and Drink value chains can use technology, cooperation and youth to improve their resilience and interactions but these activities need funding.
- We are leading a cluster of comparative research on governance and cooperation to share good practice between cases. Information about this research can be found here https://www.moving-h2020.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/MOVING_Clusters_v3.pdf. A multi-national stakeholder workshop is being held in November in Hungary to share knowledge and progress the research.
- Browse through all of the MOVING Digital Stories. The package of 23 short videos provides an overview of the vulnerability of mountain value chains in European and neighbourhood countries. Access here
- To view the storymap introducing the Speyside Whisky Value Chain case study access here. It contains a series of pages which introduce the region, as well as some of the key elements of the value chain assemblage. Further links to additional information, as well as some of the project deliverables, are available via the “Digital Objects” elements on each page. February 2023.
- Publication of the report: Vulnerability and Resilience of the Speyside Whisky, food and drink tourism value chain assemblage. December 2022. Read the report here.
- You can view the slides from some of our recent presentations here. One presentation exploring the role of young people in sustainable mountain development (Presented at ODT, October 2022) and one presentation on our value chain work presented at ESRS. June 2022.
- In May 2022, we presented our approach to value chain analysis to the sustainable land management working group of the Scottish Forum on Natural Capital. It was a sister presentation to work by the Scottish Agricultural Organisation Society on barley supply chains. In both cases, stakeholders were interested how the work could make natural resources more visible in the success of the Scottish Food and Drink sector. Meeting notes are here and presentation slides located here.
- Colleagues in Hutton and University of Aberdeen have recently produced this short video (2 min 18 sec) entitled ‘A Dam Fine Dram‘ to highlight how Nature Based Solutions are being used at Glenlivet Distillery to mitigate low water flows. May 2022.
- The Hutton team are responsible for leading the Extended Value Chain Analysis (EVCA) being conducted by partners in all of the case study areas across Europe. The following guidance and templates were completed for each value chain: EVCA template and Diagram template, which informed analysis (including qualitative content analysis using Nvivo and descriptive analysis using Excel) and reporting, lead by the Hutton team. The deliverable report is available here and on the main MOVING website.
- A report from our stakeholder workshops discussing the Speyside Malt Whisky value chain is available here.
- The value chain diagrams discussed in the May 2022 workshops are available here. Workshop participants were also given a chance to comment on these.
- Vulnerability of the Speyside whisky industry to environmental change. Two reports from this recent research (Autumn 2021) can be found here. A research report and a technical report.
- A selection of mountain value chain: private sector valorisation of natural capital?, Research Note, January 2022.
- A report highlighting policy briefs of each country’s value chains and its policy context is now available to view here.
- You can now view the report commencing the participatory value chain work across the whole project here.
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