CCRI is the largest specialist rural research centre in the UK, having expertise in all aspects of research in policy and planning for the countryside and the environment of the UK, Europe and further afield.
In this blog, we hear from Dr. John Lever, Reader at the Centre for Sustainability, Responsibility, Governance and Ethics at the University of Huddersfield who has been conducting research on the regional food system in Kirklees in West Yorkshire for over five years.
Entitled ‘COVID-19 Reset: Place-based food initiatives in a time of crisis’ we hear from Dr. Rebecca Sandover, Research Fellow University of Exeter and Trustee Food Exeter.
Dan Keech and Matt Reed will be hosting a session at the forthcoming on-line conference ‘Urban-Rural Partnerships 2020’, on 25-27th November.
A new paper has been published arising from research conducted during the EU 7th Framework VALERIE project with Julie Ingram as lead author.
In the latest blog post related to COVID-19 and sustainable food systems, we hear from Steven McGreevy & Norie Tamura from the FEAST project at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan who discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected rural and urban areas in Japan.
Senior Research Fellow, Julie Urquhart is to be guest Editor of the journal ‘Forests’ with the theme of ‘Global Forest Health and Climate Change: Social, Economic and Environmental Implications’.
Phil Staddon, principal lecturer and researcher at CCRI is guest editing a forthcoming issue of ‘Cogent Environmental Science’, a multidisciplinary open access journal.
In the latest Covid-19 and sustainable food systems blog, CCRI researcher Jasmine Black discusses the resilience of CSA and veg box schemes.
Next week Janet Dwyer will participate in a roundtable discussion concerning the future of land management in the farming sector. Find out how to join in the discussion.
Damian Maye and Julie Ingram have just had a paper accepted for publication in ‘Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems’ that considers the implications of a digital transformation in agricultural production systems specifically for agricultural knowledge.