This project investigated the potential of long-term agreements (30 years+) for achieving landscape recovery in lowland productive areas, including how a funding approach which blends both public and private funding may work.
The third blog from the FARMWELL team who recently visited Romania saw them explore a range of farms in the Brașov area.
FARMWELL is a European Thematic Network project funded by Horizon 2020 exploring social innovations that have capacity to improve farmer wellbeing . Recently a CCRI team attended a meeting with project partners in Brașov, Romania.
The CCRI FARMWELL project team have been on field work in Romania. In this blog the CCRI researchers provide some initial impressions of Romania during the drive from Bucharest into Transylvania.
Professor Damian Maye will deliver a keynote address at a forthcoming agri-food conference at the University of Hohenheim, near Stuttgart.
Funded by Natural England, this five-month project, which started in November 2021, mapped the uptake of Environmental Stewardship and Countryside Stewardship building maintenance options. Once the mapping was complete, analysis of the geographic pattern of uptake was compared to the national character mapping to identify gaps in uptake.
The Heart of the South West LEP commissioned CCRI to undertake research in order to understand what, if any, obstacles exist for farmers and land managers to maximise their access to SFI and future ELMs schemes.
This research built on previous work undertaken for the same funders, including work by CCRI which explored rural vulnerability from a public utilities’ perspective
The CCRI are currently involved in an on-going series of themed research projects under the DEFRA Research and Experimental Development (R&D) Framework.