This week’s CCRI Seminar presentation examines the variability in performance of English farms, which will be presented by Steve Langton, a freelance statistician working mainly with ecological and agricultural data.
Recently Pete Gaskell and Nick Lewis travelled to the North Pennines AONB as part of the Horizon 2020 project 'PEGASUS'. They were working with contacts within the AONB and aiming to develop an understanding of the area and the various relationships between farming, forestry and the provision of Ecosystem services.
Matt Reed is working with a University of Gloucestershire research team in a study to determine to what extent consumers currently use existing front of packaging (FOP) traffic light nutrition labeling to make their food choices, or whether an alternative receipt-based summary may be a more useful tool instead.
Matt Reed gave us some ‘fish for thought’ last week on BBC Radio Gloucestershire last week in an interview with Faye Hatcher regarding heavy metals in fish. Matt’s interview can still be listened to until 7 June - read the news article for full information.
John Powell recently attended the IASC European Regional Conference in Bern. 'Commons in a 'Glocal' World' looked at the interfaces between local and global processes, and you can read John's thoughts in his latest Blog post.
Damian Maye and Rhiannon Naylor contributed to a paper which has been accepted for publication by Preventive Veterinary Medicine. The paper stems from research, contracted by Defra and the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency in 2012, to undertake an exploration of factors that influence the expansion of the area affected by endemic bTB.
Julie Ingram and Kenny Lynch (School of Natural and Social Sciences, University of Gloucestershire) have secured funding from the UK’s Newton Fund to work with researchers from Egypt and South Africa on understanding water and food security issues. The support comes from a British Council Researcher Links award.
A second paper based on the key findings of the EU GLAMUR project has been published in a special issue of Sustainability which has open access.
A paper based on a study of cheese supply chains in the UK and Switzerland, which was co-written by CCRI researchers, has been published with open access by Sustainability. It is derived from research conducted as part of the EU 7th Framework Programme project GLAMUR (Global and Local food chain Assessment: a MUltidimensional performance-based approach).