News

A project summary for a European project, EDORA, carried out between 2008 and 2010 and funded through the ESPON 2013 Programme, can now be downloaded for free on the CCRI website.

Luca Lazzarini, our visiting PhD from Polytechnic of Turin, is making a presentation as part of the CCRI Seminar Series on Thursday 29th June.  His presentation is based on the results of his study period at CCRI, which is due to end on July 15th 2017.

CCRI has produced a project summary for Supurbfood, an EU project that ran from 2012 and 2015 which explored good practice in the development of food production and consumption within city regions.

Matt Reed and Jane Mills attended a plenary meeting of RECARE in Hella, Iceland, from 29th May to 2nd June.

The CCRI is working with Rural Services Network (RSN) and Rural England, conducting a survey in which rural stakeholders are being invited to participate to help shape a new agenda for the countryside.

Julie Ingram and Hannah Chiswell recently attended a meeting in Aberdeen for the Agridemo-F2F project (Building an interactive Agridemo–Hub community enhancing farmer to farmer learning), which is looking at best practice in farm demonstration.

The results of a CCRI study of the LEAF Marque certification have today been released. The study shows that LEAF Marque certification can offer significant financial, environmental and social benefits for farm businesses both in the UK and overseas.

The CCRI is part of a recently approved EU Horizon 2020 project, “Towards SUstainable and REsilient EU FARMing systems (SURE-Farm)”, which starts today (1st June).

Visiting CCRI scholar, Luca Lazzarini, is co-organising a 180 mile walk along the ancient Salaria road in Italy, passing through some of the villages deeply affected by the earthquake. The walk - ‘ViaSalaria’ - is an itinerant walking workshop that aims at studying the landscape, particularly in rural and mountainous areas. It will be undertaken by a group of undergraduate and PhD students, who will walk from Adriatic to the Tyrrhenian Sea.