CCRI welcomes new placement student

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In early September, the CCRI welcomed its latest placement student and the first to hail from the University of Gloucestershire, Bee Ray-Smallcalder.

PGR Student News – Summer 2022

Since the launch of our new website we will be providing updates about our vibrant PhD student community. Find out what they have been up to over the summer.

Co-designing sustainable food futures: using climathons to build shared agri-food visions for net zero

Bude Climathon participants visit a local bakery

Funded by the British Academy, this project develops a participatory methodology, climate assemblies, to bring farmers, rural businesses, NGOs and citizens together in two livestock farming communities (in Cumbria and Cornwall) to debate their agri-food futures, identify net zero ambitions and vision solutions in ways that are fair, just and democratic.

Whose water is it?

An ice cream bicycle vendor with an umbrella in heavy rain

Inspired by the hot dry weather over the summer of 2022, John Powell has written a new blog considering the topical issue of water now that the inevitable rain has arrived.

Research into rural microbusinesses

Two people behind boxes of produce

Research commissioned by NICRE and conducted by CCRI with the Landworkers' Alliance sought to gain an understanding of the economic, environmental and social impact of food and farming businesses, their challenges and innovation potential