VALERIE (VALorising European Research for Innovation in agriculturE and forestry)
This four-year project, completed in 2017, concerned research to underpin innovation in the agri-rural sector.
Theme | Nature recovery
A review of environmental benefits supplied by agri-environment schemes
This project aimed to provide a comprehensive review of the evidence for the provision of environmental benefits by UK agri-environment schemes.
Estimating the Incidental Socio-Economic Impacts of Environmental Stewardship
The Countryside and Community Research Institute produced a report on the Incidental Socio-Economic Benefits of Environmental Stewardship (ES) for Defra in March 2010.
Growing risk? The potential impacts of plant diseases on land use and the UK rural economy
This project aimed to develop a critical, interdisciplinary appraisal of the potential impacts of plant disease (food and non-food) on land use and the UK rural economy.
Developing approaches to ex-post assessment of regulatory change impacts at the farm level: prototype study
In 2010-11 the CCRI conducted research to assess how changes to 2008 Nitrate Pollution Control Regulations, and the 2006 Agricultural Waste Regulations would affected the agriculture sector.
Farmer attitudes to environmental management
The CCRI undertook this two-year study for Defra, together with Fera and the Centre for Rural Policy Research (University of Exeter).
The Campaign for the Farmed Environment: evaluation of partnership, local and wider impacts (March to September 2012)
An evaluation of the Campaign for the Farmed Environment (CFE) was undertaken during the period March – September 2012.
Social and economic impacts of the Cod Recovery Plan
For many years now, cod stocks in the North Sea, the North Western Waters and other European fishing zones have been under threat. Over-exploitation of fish stocks in these waters led to the introduction of the EU ‘Common Fisheries Policy’…
Methodology for assessing the environmental, economic and social characteristics of (organic and non-organic) farming systems
This project aimed to describe the range of current UK farming systems and develop a methodology to characterise their distinctive environmental, economic and social characteristics.