AgriDemo-F2F team head to Vienna
Last week Julie Ingram, Hannah Chiswell and Jane Mills traveled to Vienna for a general project meeting as part of the Horizon 2020 AgriDemo-F2F project.
VALERIE Case Study Stakeholder trial/demonstration leaflets
The Valerie project have published stakeholder field trial information leaflets. These describe the identification of problems within a number of specific contexts and the trial of experimental solutions by stakeholder project partners, and are the result of the preceding four years' work on the project.
Brexit report for Public Policy Institute for Wales
Professor Janet Dwyer’s report for the Public Policy Institute for Wales, entitled The Implications of Brexit for Agriculture, Rural Areas and Land Use in Wales has been published online this week. The report suggests how the anticipated changes to trading conditions and relationships might leave Welsh agriculture in a disadvantaged position compared to its main trading competitors after 2022.
Time as a complex and expanding, but limited, resource – Part two: Looking at time past, and back towards time future
Before Christmas, John Powell published the first part of a series of blog posts concerning time as a resource. In this second post, he discusses looking back and forwards in time, and how choices made by ourselves or others can set us along a particular path - one that we may not always be happy with.
Final programme confirmed: CCRI Rural Policy workshop
The CCRI has announced that it will be holding a Rural Policy workshop linked to Brexit on Thursday, 29th March, 2018. The workshop, which is free to attend, seeks to build on ideas from a range of industry experts, practitioners and existing discussions to identify priorities and ways to embed them into policy thinking, and ultimately action, so that food, farming and environment policy is fit for the challenges that lie ahead in the next 70 years.
Urban Food under the spotlight
Dan Keech was at a mini-symposium on urban food growing at the OpenSpace Research Centre in Milton Keynes on 13th December. The symposium was called 'Urban food-growing activities: what prospects for system change?' and Dan presented a paper called 'City horticulture – rural identity: World Heritage in Bamberg, Bavaria'.
Time as a complex and expanding, but limited, resource – Part one: Time as a resource
John Powell the current IASC president considers the notion of time as a shared resource in this, the first of three blogs. This first part introduces the notion of time, its complexity, our limited understanding of the concept and the three facets which will be explored in subsequent articles.
2017 Year in Review launched today!
The CCRI has today launched its 2017 Year in Review, which highlights the work and activities in the CCRI during 2017. It can be downloaded free of charge from the iBooks store or as a PDF from the University's Research Repository.
Matt Reed talks to Radio Gloucestershire about importance of soil
CCRI’s Dr Matt Reed spoke on the Kate Clark programme on BBC Radio Gloucestershire yesterday (10th December) about the importance of soil and how the CCRI is working on EU funded projects to identify ways in which soil quality can be improved through cropping systems and techniques.