Julie Ingram, Jane Mills and James Kirwan are involved in co-convening workshops and presenting papers at the 12th European IFSA Symposium, which begins today (12th July) at Harper Adams University and runs until 15th July.

Dan Keech is making a presentation at the Critical Foodscapes conference today, 7th July, at Warwick University. He will be presenting a paper entitled 'Urban Agriculture – charting new democratic governance for food production? The example of Bristol, UK', which was written together with Matt Reed.

Damian Maye has had a paper accepted for publication in Sociologia Ruralis. The paper is entitled 'Examining innovation for sustainability from the bottom up: An analysis of the permaculture community in England'.

CCRI Director, Janet Dwyer, was interviewed on BBC 4’s Farming Today on Friday, 1st July, 2016, about the funding that the UK currently receives from the EU CAP Pillar 2 funding, which is now under threat following the Referendum vote. The interview is available to listen to online until 31st July,.

In view of the uncertainty and turbulence which has been set in train by the results of the UK referendum on Thursday 23rd June, the CCRI has made a statement.

CCRI and other VALERIE project partners met in Amsterdam on 20th to 21st June to test out the latest version of ask-Valerie.eu, a digital but knowledgeable ‘assistant-expert’ or ‘virtual adviser’ being developed for searching and retrieving relevant results from scientific sources.

While researching UKIP attitudes to renewable energy projects in rural Britain, Matt Reed uncovered how social media is being used to promote climate change scepticism. In his latest published paper, he demonstrates how UKIP is part of a wider wave of ‘anti-reflexive movements’, promoting distrust and doubt to further certain political ends.