We reported back in December that for the second year running a CCRI team of researchers had won the ‘Best Paper of the Year Award’ from the Journal of Agricultural Extension and Education (JAEE). You can now read what the winning team had to say about the award in a ‘winner’s story’ article, published on the Taylor & Francis Group website.
The CCRI is one of 27 project partners working on RECARE – a 5 year EU project which is looking at measures to prevent and remediate against soil degradation in Europe. RECARE has just published its December 2015 Newsletter.
For the second year running, the CCRI has been awarded the ‘best article of the year’ by the Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension (JAEE).
The 2016 International Farming Systems Association Symposium is now calling for papers for the workshop “Boundary spanning between agroecological and conventional production systems: implications for pathways towards more sustainable production”.
A brochure for the EU funded project SmartSOIL is now available to download. It is available in English, Spanish and Italian.
The CCRI is to be well represented at the 2016 International Farming Systems Association Symposium, with sessions linking to three EU funded projects on which the CCRI is currently a working partner - Glamur, SUFISA and VALERIE
An article regarding the SmartSOIL toolbox has been published in Agra Europe.
Dr Julie Ingram and Jane Mills attended the final conference of a major EU project called SmartSOIL, which took place at the Halles des Tanneurs in Brussels.
Evaluation of the Duchy Originals Future Farming (DOFF) Farmer Field Labs for the Soil Association.
RECARE was a multidisciplinary research project of 27 different organisations that assessed the threats to Europe's soils and identified innovative solutions to prevent further soil degradation.