Latest news and updates from CCRI.
Dan Keech was at a mini-symposium on urban food growing at the OpenSpace Research Centre in Milton Keynes on 13th December. The symposium was called 'Urban food-growing activities: what prospects for system change?' and Dan presented a paper called 'City horticulture – rural identity: World Heritage in Bamberg, Bavaria'.
The CCRI has today launched its 2017 Year in Review, which highlights the work and activities in the CCRI during 2017. It can be downloaded free of charge from the iBooks store or as a PDF from the University's Research Repository.
CCRI’s Dr Matt Reed spoke on the Kate Clark programme on BBC Radio Gloucestershire yesterday (10th December) about the importance of soil and how the CCRI is working on EU funded projects to identify ways in which soil quality can be improved through cropping systems and techniques.
CCRI Director, Professor Janet Dwyer is making a seminar presentation on Thursday 14th December about her experience and research over the summer in Kyoto, Japan, where she undertook an OECD Research Fellowship. The seminar is free to attend.
A CCRI team of researchers have been leading a work package for the EU funded project VALERIE -Valorising European Research for Innovation in Agriculture and Forestry, which has developed a smart ‘virtual adviser’ tool (ask-Valerie.eu)
A paper, co-written by Julie Ingram, Peter Gaskell, Jane Mills and Pieter de Wolf (University of Wageningen), has been published in Land Use Policy. It describes how the VALERIE team has worked with stakeholder communities in ten farming and forestry case studies across Europe.
Julie Ingram is at the 3rd International Conference on Global Food Security: Global Challenges, Local Solutions and Connected Pathways this week in Cape Town, networkworking and sharing ideas about implementing local solutions and innovation for sustainable agriculture.
The latest VALERIE newsletter is now available for download, summarising the activities in some of the project case studies, as well as an update on the ask-Valerie tool.
Today is World Soil Day, when the attention of the world is focussed on one of our most important natural resources - soil. World Soil Day is held annually on 5th December to highlight the importance of soil on Earth, which we need for basic survival - food and energy.