CCRI has welcomed the recent report from the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee on Soil Health, which states that soil is often overlooked as an essential component to human life. Read Jane Mills' blog about CCRI's work in the challenge to address soil degradation.
The CCRI has welcomed Camille Glasson, a French student from AgroSup Dijon, who has come to the CCRI for three months to work on the PEGASUS project.
Janet Dwyer will be speaking at the Rural Services Network (RSN) 2016 rural conference, which will be held at the Park Campus, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, on 6th and 7th September.
The CCRI welcomes today Marco Della Gala from the University of Calabria, who will be working in the CCRI for 20 months on a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship. Through an EU Horizon 2020 funded project called SOFIA, Marco will be creating ICT based tools, in particular mobile applications, to help people access local food.
Completed in February 2018, SOFIA created a Smartphone app called 'MiLarder' to help people access local food.
CCRI researchers have co-authored two new books, which are available for free download. The first, 'Governance in City Food Systems', provides the reader with a general overview of urban governance of food systems. The second book follows on from the previous text and, through 8 case studies, explores the major issues that characterise the debate on the governance of food systems. Both publications are edited by Mark Deakin, Davide Diamantini and Nunzia Borrelli. Damian Maye, Dan Keech and Matt Reed are the contributing CCRI authors.
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.