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.
Mauro Vigani travels to Brussels for the 172nd European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE) Seminar where he will present a co-authored paper concerning the impact of CAP Pillar II payments within EU28 countries.
Julie Ingram and Hannah Chiswell will be helping to present the findings of the Agridemo project at the final project conference this week in Brussels.
More publication success for the CCRI with the acceptance of an article into a journal and a new book going into production.
PhD student, Caitlin Hafferty has written an article for ‘Salmo Trutta’, the journal of the Wild Trout Trust. The article is focussed on the River Brue in the small Somerset town of Bruton and details community engagement and management of the river. Find out more and download Caitlin’s article for free.
The latest paper from Julie Ingram, with Pete Gaskell as co-author has been published in NJAS – Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences. The paper reports on findings from four case-studies across Europe as part of the EU FP7 funded project ‘VALERIE’.
This week, CCRI Director Janet Dwyer was interviewed by BBC Radio Gloucestershire and asked to comment on the recently published House of Lords Select Committee on the Rural Economy report ‘Time for a strategy for the rural economy’.
Next week Damian Maye will travel to Brussels and present findings from the SUFISA project to DG Agri at the European Commission.
CCRI’s Matt Reed and colleague Professor Anne Goodenough feature on BBC’s Countryfile Spring Diaries show this week discussing issues surrounding how climate change is affecting fruit tree blossom and its chance for pollination.
Tomorrow sees the much anticipated report from the House of Lords Select Committee on the Rural Economy. CCRI Director Janet Dwyer was one person who gave evidence to the Committee
Damian Maye will be speaking at a workshop in Switzerland later this month that will discuss challenges and directions of agri-environmental governance