CCRI researchers, together with colleagues from the School of Natural and Social Sciences, coordinated two workshops last week (13th and 14th February) in Cairo, continuing CCRI’s collaboration with Research Institute for Sustainable Environment (RISE) at the American University Cairo (AUC).
CCRI researchers have launched a Smartphone app to help people source local food. The app is called 'MiLarder' and can be downloaded for free from iOS and Android app stores.
CCRI's Julie Ingram has been invited onto the editorial board of the Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems journal new 'Sustainable Intensification & Ecosystem Services' section.
As the most prolific blogger in CCRI, John Powell has set himself the challenge of writing a post per month during 2018. Nick Lewis, John's colleague and office room-mate, wanted to explore the reasons behind this and motivations for his regular outputs.
It is fifty years since Garrett Hardin's paper 'Tragedy of the Commons' was published. In his latest blog post, senior research fellow, John Powell discusses this article, which continues to be cited and used throughout the world, despite the fact that Hardin's conceptual framework is, and always has been, flawed.
On 14th February 2018, Jane Mills attended the “Where for UK soil after Brexit?" conference at the Soil Research Centre, Reading University, where she presented posters on the RECARE and SoilCare projects, on which she has been working.
A paper written by Damian Maye has been published in City, Culture and Society.. The paper is entitled ‘Smart food city’: conceptual relations between smart city planning, urban food systems and innovation theory'.
Project: Foresters’ Forest – Monitoring and Evaluation
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Duration of project: December 2014 - April 2021
An interview with CCRI Director, Professor Janet Dwyer, was broadcast on BBC 1 West (Regional News) yesterday. The interview referred to Janet's recently published report written for the Public Policy Institute for Wales (PPIW), entitled 'The Implications of Brexit for Agriculture, Rural Areas and Land Use in Wales'.