The CCRI is working with Rural Services Network (RSN) and Rural England, conducting a survey in which rural stakeholders are being invited to participate to help shape a new agenda for the countryside.
The aim of the survey was to assess the current key concerns for those living in rural areas and aimed to develop an up-to-date agenda for such areas.
Julie Ingram and Hannah Chiswell recently attended a meeting in Aberdeen for the Agridemo-F2F project (Building an interactive Agridemo–Hub community enhancing farmer to farmer learning), which is looking at best practice in farm demonstration.
In 2017, the CCRI carried out a study of the benefits of LEAF Marque certification.
The results of a CCRI study of the LEAF Marque certification have today been released. The study shows that LEAF Marque certification can offer significant financial, environmental and social benefits for farm businesses both in the UK and overseas.
ROBUST was a European research project involving 24 partners from 11 countries. It aimed to improve and develop relationships between rural and urban areas.
The CCRI is part of a recently approved EU Horizon 2020 project, “Towards SUstainable and REsilient EU FARMing systems (SURE-Farm)”, which starts today (1st June).
Visiting CCRI scholar, Luca Lazzarini, is co-organising a 180 mile walk along the ancient Salaria road in Italy, passing through some of the villages deeply affected by the earthquake. The walk - ‘ViaSalaria’ - is an itinerant walking workshop that aims at studying the landscape, particularly in rural and mountainous areas. It will be undertaken by a group of undergraduate and PhD students, who will walk from Adriatic to the Tyrrhenian Sea.
The CCRI has today published a new Commons e-book, featuring a compilation of blog posts written in connection with commons, and in particular attendance at various international IASC conferences over the last few years. This follows on from the Commons e-book that the CCRI published in March 2016, entitled 'Commons – Governance of shared assets’, which is still available as a free download.