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.
In 2011, ’Making Local Food Work’ commissioned CCRI and local food consultants f3 to undertaken research into small scale food production.
The CCRI conducted a review of the UK wine sector as part of a wider evaluation of the measures in the Common Agricultural Policy due to be applied to the EU wine sector.
The CCRI undertook this two-year study for Defra, together with Fera and the Centre for Rural Policy Research (University of Exeter).
An evaluation of the Campaign for the Farmed Environment (CFE) was undertaken during the period March – September 2012.
This project sought to examine and document the impacts of the seven-year ERDP upon the economy, society and environment of rural England
CCRI was one of the lead partners in a consortium which conducted a major analysis of the design, implementation and emerging impacts of Rural Development Programmes (RDPs) between 2007-13.
The project sought to understand the impacts of fishing on both those people and communities who are directly dependent on it and those who are indirectly involved with it.
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’…