Janet Dwyer is currently working with CCRI Associate, Allan Butler, from the Royal Agricultural University, to provide an economic analysis and project evaluation of the ‘Molland Graze the Moor' project in Exmoor.
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.
Report on the impacts, effectiveness and efficiency of RDP expenditure.
Completed in February 2018, SOFIA created a Smartphone app called 'MiLarder' to help people access local food.
Dr James Kirwan, together with Bill Slee and Carolyn Foster (both formerly of the CCRI), completed an analysis of the potential role of new food supply chains in sustainable rural development during the period 2003 to 2006, as part of…
Social research project conducting primary research with animal keepers and vets to provide evidence on the impact of current exotic disease compensation policy on animal keeper behaviour.
The overall aim of SoilCare was to identify and evaluate promising soil-improving cropping systems and agronomic techniques that increase the profitability and sustainability of agriculture across Europe.
In November 2014, the CCRI won a new research project to explore the current state of Exmoor farming and analyse how it may change in the future.