Scotland’s experts on farmer co-ops and food industry collaboration, we work with food and farming businesses to make them more profitable, competitive, and sustainable - #workingtogether to shape the future, today.
All our work helps facilitate farmers and food and drink businesses to work together effectively. Over the years we've expanded and developed subsidiary businesses - getting the right people together and making innovative advancements - to help benefit food, farming and rural Scotland.
Developing staff capability is one of the most effective ways to improve a co-op’s performance. Check out our events and training programme - most of which are open to non co-op members too.
As a development organisation, owned by our members, we provide a range of specialist services not available elsewhere, to assist them in developing their people and their businesses. Get in touch to find out how we can help you.
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As part of IBioIC’s Bioeconomy Week 2022, C2N joined Grampian Growers in welcoming MSPs Maggie Chapman and Cabinet Secretary, Mairi Gougeon, to find out more about their collaboration with Welsh-based Agroceutical Products and The Robert Gordon University.
RGU academics, led by Professor Cherry Wainwright, are conducting a study exploring the role of daffodil-derived bioactives in preventing cardiovascular disease. Initial findings show that specific compounds taken from daffodils could help prevent the thickening and stiffening of the heart's walls.
Watch our Bioeconomy week video - with Grampian Growers
Scotland, and Angus region in particular, has the potential to become a biorefining hub that offers scale to agri co-ops with bioarisings (wastes or co-products) with commercial potential.
Find out more about Scotland's first Bioeconomy Week — IBioIC Publications (ibioic-publications.com)