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Equation describing qualities needed for job as Lantra Sustainability Co-ordinator
Sustainability Co-ordinator wanted

If you’re looking for a new challenge in sustainability and think you could help the agriculture and aquaculture industries handle climate change and move towards...

Sustainability Co-ordinator wanted

If you’re looking for a new challenge in sustainability and think you could help the agriculture and aquaculture industries handle climate change and move towards...

Plastic litter being picked up in a forest by a grab with people standing behind
Picking up the pieces

Our director Liz looks at why people drop litter and what we can do to change their behaviours.

Picking up the pieces

Our director Liz looks at why people drop litter and what we can do to change their behaviours.

Scottish mountains on cover of Lantra Scotland annual review
Our annual review 2020-21

Want to know more about all the incredible work we've been doing to benefit Scotland's rural economy? Here's our annual review with some of the...

Our annual review 2020-21

Want to know more about all the incredible work we've been doing to benefit Scotland's rural economy? Here's our annual review with some of the...

Chance and change
Embrace the random

Lockdowns and home schooling have been eating up our Director Liz's spare time, so in her latest blog she looks forward to embracing the random in her life again.

Embrace the random

Lockdowns and home schooling have been eating up our Director Liz's spare time, so in her latest blog she looks forward to embracing the random in her life again.

Women working in rural jobs
Funding for practical training on offer to women in rural Scotland from Scottish Government

Women in rural Scotland are being offered help for practical training, thanks to funding schemes that we're running on behalf of the Scottish Government. You...

Funding for practical training on offer to women in rural Scotland from Scottish Government

Women in rural Scotland are being offered help for practical training, thanks to funding schemes that we're running on behalf of the Scottish Government. You...

ALBAS 2021 finalists
Winners of ALBAS 2021 revealed

The winners of our ALBAS (Awards for Land-based and Aquaculture Skills) were announced at a special virtual ceremony on Thursday 4th March. Employers, colleges, trainees...

Winners of ALBAS 2021 revealed

The winners of our ALBAS (Awards for Land-based and Aquaculture Skills) were announced at a special virtual ceremony on Thursday 4th March. Employers, colleges, trainees...

Astrology chart for horoscope
Looking to the future

I am afraid I have a terrible confession to make. One that I have never shared with anyone else before, but which I now feel...

Looking to the future

I am afraid I have a terrible confession to make. One that I have never shared with anyone else before, but which I now feel...

Trophies from the ALBAS
Finalists for ALBAS 2021 announced

A select group of Scotland’s top trainees and rural learners have been named as finalists for Lantra Scotland’s 19th Awards for Land-based and Aquaculture Skills...

Finalists for ALBAS 2021 announced

A select group of Scotland’s top trainees and rural learners have been named as finalists for Lantra Scotland’s 19th Awards for Land-based and Aquaculture Skills...