Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank Ian Davidson, Carol Chalmers, Roy McLachlan, Peter Wallace and Cornilius Chikwama of the Scottish Executive for providing all required LFA farm data and information and their continuous support throughout the project. We are very grateful too for the constructive comments received from the attendees at the stakeholder workshop.
Gerald Schwarz, Rob Burton, Iain Wright, Alana Gilbert, Jim McLeod and Margaret McKeen; The Macaulay Institute
Ron Wilson; University of Edinburgh
Vicki Swales; Institute for European Environmental Policy