The CCRI won a project to lead a large multi-institute team which has won a large grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Connected Communities, Environments and Sustainability.
In December 2013, the CCRI and Ricardo-AEA (a global sustainability consultancy) were awarded a three-year research contract to evaluate the Rural Community Energy Fund.
Matt Reed talks about his 'zombie ideas', presented in his opening presentation at the latest project meeting of SUPURBFOOD, held in Rome.
Defra commissioned the CCRI to undertake an assessment of the social return on the investment of axes 1 and 3 of the Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE).
Janet Dwyer and John Powell, supported by Paul Courtney and Katarina Kubinakova, have been visiting Malta every couple of months for almost 2 years now, talking to farmers and other rural development stakeholders, running workshops, visiting farms, hosting meetings and making presentations…
Yesterday Defra launched a new call for evidence and invited farmers and fishermen to comment upon how they feel the EU has affected the UK national interest.
Julie Ingram and Jane Mills are co-hosting a session on soil carbon management for sustaining agricultural productivity at the forthcoming 2nd Global Soil Week 2013 “Losing Ground?” The event runs from Monday, 28 October 2013 until Thursday 31 October in Berlin…
CCRI’s Dan Keech will be presenting at the ‘Rurality: New Perspectives and Themes’ conference at the Otto-Friederich Univeristy in Bamberg, Germany on 15th and 16th November 2013.
Research Assistant Dan Keech will be teaching this week on the MSc Sociological Studies course at Masaryk University, Brno, in the Czech Republic.