
CCRI team attend SoilCare meeting in Crete
Jane Mills and Julie Ingram attended the 2nd SoilCare project plenary meeting in Chania, Crete from 13th-16th March.

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

Julie Ingram and Jane Mills are attending the Agridemo-F2F kick off meeting in Ghent this week. Agridemo-F2F is a new project funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme.

Pete Gaskell and Julie Ingram are visiting one of the VALERIE project forestry case studies this week in the Roncal Valley in the Basque Pyrenees.

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 will be in Kazakhstan from the 14th to 18th November, at a British Council Researcher Links Workshop on Management of Innovation in the Agricultural Sector. Julie is acting as mentor for the coordinators of the workshop which aims to increase research capacity of UK and Kazakhstani early career researchers and promote collaboration between them.

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.