Research projects

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Post-Covid Knowledge Exchange in Agriculture: Evaluating Current Practice and Co-designing a Digital Solution to Connect Farmers and the AKIS

Taking place over 15 months from December 2020 to February 2022, Julie Ingram, Nick Lewis and Caitlin Hafferty worked with a group of partners – namely RSK ADAS Ltd, Agri-techE, The Farming Forum, Innovative Farmers and the Open Coop –…

May 19, 2020

National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise (NICRE)

The National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise (NICRE) aims to realise a step change in innovation and unlock potential in the UK’s rural economies.

May 11, 2020

Shop set up for social distancing during COVID

COVID-19 and Food Systems – Database

In response to the pandemic, we've been collating extensive coverage on how food systems both in the UK and globally have been affected.

April 5, 2020

Co-Designing the principles for defining low impact fishing

The CCRI are working with the New Economics Foundation, MRAG and Cefas on a project to define low impact fishing.

March 12, 2020

Changing Treescapes

Making visible the cultural values at risk from tree pests and diseases through arts approaches (TREESCAPES).

January 30, 2020

Feasibility Study for a Survey of Fishers

This project was commissioned by Defra and ran from October 2018 to March 2019.

January 8, 2020

Developing social indicators for the monitoring and evaluation of Agri-environment Schemes

In 2019 a team at CCRI was commissioned by Natural England to develop a set of social indicators that can be used to monitor and evaluate agri-environment schemes.

December 11, 2018

An adaptive decision-support tool for better grassland management by UK farmers

The CCRI is part of a partnership for a two year research translation project funded by the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Innovation Club (SARIC).

October 3, 2018

FUTGRAZE

This project identified ‘best practice’ and outlined a range of ways to manage and operate pasture areas in Norway, this included concrete arrangements for handling misconceptions and the different priorities of various interest.

October 2, 2018