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Latest news and updates from CCRI.

Free conference for upland farmers

CCRI Visiting Research Fellow, Jane Ricketts Hein, is organising a free one-day conference for Welsh upland farmers at Bangor University. The conference is called "What is the future for upland farming in Wales: Beyond CAP?"

Call to Somerset dairy farmers

Somerset dairy farmers are invited to a free event to put forward their needs and aspirations for the sustainability of dairy farming in Somerset following Brexit.

CCRI Seminar presentation – Thursday 16th February

Dr Nick James, who is a geographer and Associate Lecturer with the Open University, and Liz Child, a Human Ecology graduate and a local fresh food campaigner, are making a presentation on Thursday 16th February entitled 'A Horticultural Belt for Stroud District'.

VALERIE meeting in Toulouse

The VALERIE project partners have been meeting in Toulouse (23rd-27th January) to review progress and plan for the last year of the project

200 attend Natural Flood Management conference at University of Gloucestershire

Around 200 people attended a major conference on Natural Flood Management (NFM) at the University of Gloucestershire on 25th January. The conference -"Natural Flood Management: Enabling Partnerships and Action" - was organised by the CCRI and Stroud District Council and was aimed at building partnerships between local communities, flood groups, local authorities and land managers to enable them to deliver effective natural flood management at the local scale.