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A new publication from Nenia Micha is now available that highlights the benefits to farmers who implement Nutrient Management Plans.

Many people make their living from the sea, while many more visit the coast and the sea for pleasure, an esential part of which is angling. Defra has commissioned CCRI, to carry out research finding out more about sea anglers, their ideas and backgrounds, and part of this work is an online survey.

Last year, CCRI researchers had a paper published in a special issue of the journal ‘Space and Polity’. Due to the interest in this special edition, which profiled "the varied contributions of geographical inquiry to scholarly debates on the causes, meaning and implications of the UKs decision to Brexit from the EU", the journal will now be published as a book.

Mauro Vigani travels to Brussels for the 172nd European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE) Seminar where he will present a co-authored paper concerning the impact of CAP Pillar II payments within EU28 countries.

Julie Ingram and Hannah Chiswell will be helping to present the findings of the Agridemo project at the final project conference this week in Brussels.

More publication success for the CCRI with the acceptance of an article into a journal and a new book going into production.

PhD student, Caitlin Hafferty has written an article for 'Salmo Trutta', the journal of the Wild Trout Trust. The article is focussed on the River Brue in the small Somerset town of Bruton and details community engagement and management of the river. Find out more and download Caitlin's article for free.

The latest paper from Julie Ingram, with Pete Gaskell as co-author has been published in NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences. The paper reports on findings from four case-studies across Europe as part of the EU FP7 funded project 'VALERIE'.

This week, CCRI Director Janet Dwyer was interviewed by BBC Radio Gloucestershire and asked to comment on the recently published House of Lords Select Committee on the Rural Economy report 'Time for a strategy for the rural economy'.