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SROI & Local Food Programme

Recently the CCRI were commissioned to conduct an SROI (Social Return on Investment) on the Local Food Programme. SROI is a relatively new technique that aims to assess the financial contribution for outcomes that are not ordinarily associated with monetary…

Bristol Pound & CCRI

CCRI are developing closer links with the Bristol Pound (B£), an alternative local currency for the city.

SUPURBFOOD meeting in Rome

Matt Reed talks about his 'zombie ideas', presented in his opening presentation at the latest project meeting of SUPURBFOOD, held in Rome.  

CCRI and the Maltese RDP

Janet Dwyer and John Powell, supported by Paul Courtney and Katarina Kubinakova, have been visiting Malta every couple of months for almost 2 years now, talking to farmers and other rural development stakeholders, running workshops, visiting farms, hosting meetings and making presentations…

Global Soil Week & Filming Farmers

Julie Ingram and Jane Mills are co-hosting a session on soil carbon management for sustaining agricultural productivity at the forthcoming 2nd Global Soil Week 2013 “Losing Ground?” The event runs from Monday, 28 October 2013 until Thursday 31 October in Berlin…

Owain’s Recent Publication – ‘On breathing and geography…’

In a new paper, published in ‘Environment and Planning’, Owain Jones and his co-author Michaela Palmer (née Reiser) make the case for using sonification as a means of representing data that might not otherwise be considered in environmental discussions.

HLS & Permissive Access – A Report for Natural England

An evaluation of permissive access under Higher Level Stewardship (HLS) options was carried out over the period October 2011 – March 2012 by CCRI in conjunction with Ken Taylor of Asken Ltd.  The evaluation included telephone and face-to-face interviews with…