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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'.

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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'.

The final programme for the CCRI's Growing the Future workshop, taking place on Thursday, 29th March, 2018, has now been published.

Julie Ingram and Rob Berry will be Cairo next week continuing CCRI's collaboration with Research Institute for Sustainable Environment (RISE) at the American University Cairo (AUC), where they will be running workshops aimed to improve better water management for small holder farmers in Egypt.

PEGASUS project presents key lessons and messages at final conference in Brussels