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The CCRI Postgraduate Winter School takes place at the University of Gloucestershire Oxstalls Campus on Thursday 12th January.

CCRI Director, Professor Janet Dwyer, has been awarded an OECD Research Fellowship and will be spending two months in the summer and autumn of 2017 in Japan researching the governance of Japan’s Satoyama cultural landscapes.

Jane Mills talks to Faye Hatcher on BBC Radio Gloucestershire about the importance of soil and how it is often forgotten and undervalued as a global resource

Pete Gaskell and Julie Ingram are visiting one of the VALERIE project forestry case studies this week in the Roncal Valley in the Basque Pyrenees.

The CCRI has today published its 2016 Year in Review brochure, highlighting our research and other activities during the past year.

The latest project update for 'VALERIE’ (VALorising European Research for Innovation in agriculturE and forestry), which concerns research to underpin innovation in the agri-rural sector, is available to download.

5th December, is World Soil Day - the one day in the year that the United Nations asks us all to think about the role of soil in our daily lives. The CCRI has been collaborating on two major EU funded projects, SoilCare and RECARE, to investigate how soil quality can be improved.

The annual CCRI Winter School will be taking place on the 10th and 11th January 2017, at Oxstalls Campus of the University of Gloucestershire. Find out more about the event and how to apply if you would like to attend.

Over recent weeks, CCRI Director, Professor Janet Dwyer has been involved in a range of events related to 'Brexit' and the possible impacts upon UK agriculture. Read about all of these, and listen to an interview on BBC's Farming Today.