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.

A paper produced by CCRI providing insights into farmers’ willingness and ability to undertake environmental management has just been published in the Journal of Agriculture and Human Values.

Soil erosion has been trending in the media since the publication of the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee on Soil Health report on 2nd June, which warned that some of the most productive agricultural land in the country is at risk…

A VALERIE project workshop took place in Brussels on 1st June, which was attended by Julie Ingram together with representatives of national & regional farmer unions, AKIS Working Groups, the EIP-AGRI Service Point & EIP Operational Groups.