News

Matt Reed was interviewed on the Kate Clark BBC Radio Gloucestershire programme yesterday (25th February) about the newly launched local food app, ‘MiLarder’.

Damian Maye has a chapter entitled ‘The new food insecurity’ in a newly published Routledge Handbook on Landscape and Food.

CCRI researchers, together with colleagues from the School of Natural and Social Sciences, coordinated two workshops last week (13th and 14th February) in Cairo, continuing CCRI’s collaboration with Research Institute for Sustainable Environment (RISE) at the American University Cairo (AUC).

CCRI researchers have launched a Smartphone app to help people source local food. The app is called 'MiLarder' and can be downloaded for free from iOS and Android app stores.

CCRI's Julie Ingram has been invited onto the editorial board of the Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems journal new 'Sustainable Intensification & Ecosystem Services' section.

On 14th February 2018, Jane Mills attended the “Where for UK soil after Brexit?" conference at the Soil Research Centre, Reading University, where she presented posters on the RECARE and SoilCare projects, on which she has been working.

A paper written by Damian Maye has been published in City, Culture and Society.. The paper is entitled ‘Smart food city’: conceptual relations between smart city planning, urban food systems and innovation theory'.

Project: Foresters’ Forest – Monitoring and Evaluation
Client:
Duration of project: December 2014 - April 2021

An interview with CCRI Director, Professor Janet Dwyer, was broadcast on BBC 1 West (Regional News) yesterday. The interview referred to Janet's recently published report written for the Public Policy Institute for Wales (PPIW), entitled 'The Implications of Brexit for Agriculture, Rural Areas and Land Use in Wales'.