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.
The RECARE project has recently completed a review of EU polices on soil protection. In this review, 28 of the most relevant EU policy instruments for soil protection have been examined with respect to their provisions and mechanisms.
Jane Mills and Julie Ingram attended the 2nd SoilCare project plenary meeting in Chania, Crete from 13th-16th March.
Drs Kenny Lynch (School of Natural and Social Sciences, University of Gloucestershire) and Julie Ingram are coordinating a Workshop in Cairo on 'Ecosystem services in informal settlements in Cairo' on 25th to 27th February.
The VALERIE project partners have been meeting in Toulouse (23rd-27th January) to review progress and plan for the last year of the project
5th December, is World Soil Day - the one day in the year that the United Nations asks us all to think about the role of soil in our daily lives. The CCRI has been collaborating on two major EU funded projects, SoilCare and RECARE, to investigate how soil quality can be improved.
Following a successful evaluation of the Soil Association’s Duchy Originals Future Farming programme in 2014, a CCRI team, comprising Matt Reed, Julie Ingram and Jane Mills, was invited in 2016 to evaluate Innovative Farmers, the successor programme, which was developed building in recommendations from our previous evaluation.
This project is looked at best practice in farm demonstration and how farmers learn from their own on-farm experiences and from other farmers.
Julie Ingram and Jane Mills have co-authored a paper which has just been published in the Journal of Rural Studies. The paper is entitled 'Communicating soil carbon science to farmers: incorporating credibility, salience and legitimacy’ and has free online access until December 24, 2016.
More pictures have been published from the Tri-lateral Researcher Links Workshop in Stellenbosch, South Africa, which Julie Ingram and Kenny Lynch (School of Natural and Social Sciences, University of Gloucestershire) led from 29th September to 1st October.