Julie Ingram – Reader in Sustainable Agri-environmental Systems

Ingram, J. and Maye, D. “Niche knowledge systems-challenging or invigorating the AKS? An analysis of the Permaculture community in England” in AgroEcological Transitions : changes and breakthroughs in the making. online. Elzen, B., A. Augustyn, M. Barbier and B. van Mierlo, 2017. AgroEcological Transitions: Changes and Breakthroughs in the Making. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18174/407609 (p35-48). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. ISBN: 978-94-6343-114-9. 

Ingram, J. (2014) Agricultural adaptation to climate change: new approaches to knowledge and learning. In: J. Fuhrer & P.J. Gregory, Eds. Climate change Impact and Adaptation in Agricultural Systems, CABI, Wallingford, UK. Chapter 17, pp 253/270

Ingram, J. Farmer-Scientist Knowledge Exchange. (2014) In Encyclopedia of Agricultural and Food Ethics, edited by Paul B. Thompson and David M. Kaplan, and published by Springer  Farmer-Scientist Knowledge Exchange. ISBN 978-94-007-0928-7

Ilbery, B., Ingram, J., Kirwan, J., Maye, D. and Prince, N. (2011) Non-successional entry into UK farming: an examination of two government-supported schemes. In Lobley, M. and Baker, J (eds) Keeping it in the family: international perspectives on succession and retirement on family farms, Ashgate, Farnham.  pp. 111-128.

Ingram, J. (2008) Agricultural advisers and the transition to sustainable soil management in England: a focus on agronomists' understanding of soil. In: Fish et al. (Eds.) Sustainable Farmland Management: Transdisciplinary Approaches. CABI, Wallingford,. pp77-93

Hily, Y., Bechini, L., Ingram, J., Koenderink, N.J.J.P., Schuler, P., ten Berge, H.F.M. and Justes, E., 2016. Valoriser les résultats de projets de recherche pour des praticiens agricoles innovants en facilitant l’accès à l’information: le projet européen VALERIE. Agronomie Environnement & Societés, 6(2).

Ingram, J., Mills, J., Dibari, C., Ferrise, R., Ghaley, B.B., Hansen, J.G., Iglesias, A., Karaczun , Z., McVittie , A., Merante, P., Molnar, A. and Sánchez, B. (2016) ‘Communicating soil carbon science to farmers: incorporating credibility, salience and legitimacy’. Journal of Rural Studies 48 , 115-128. Free online access until 24 December

Mills, J., P. Gaskell, J. Ingram, J. Dwyer, M. Reed, and C. Short. 2016. Engaging farmers in environmental management through a better understanding of behaviour. Agriculture and Human Values:1-17. doi:10.1007/s10460-016-9705-4.

Sánchez B, Iglesias A, McVittie A, Álvaro-Fuentes J, Ingram J, Mills J. (2016)  Exploring strategic management of agricultural soils for greenhouse gas mitigation: Marginal abatement costs curves and stabilisation wedges in NE Spain. Environmental Science and Policy. Volume 170, 1 April 2016, Pages 37–49 Access paper online.

Ingram, J. (2015) Framing niche-regime linkage as adaptation: an analysis of learning and innovation networks for sustainable agriculture across Europe. Journal of Rural Studies 40, 59-75

Ingram, J, Maye, D, Kirwan J, Curry, N, Kubinakova, K. (2014) Interactions between niche and regime: an analysis of learning and innovation networks for sustainable agriculture across Europe. The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension 21 (1), 55-71 (SOLINSA Special Issue). Awarded the ‘best article of the year’ for 2015 by the Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension. Free access to paper online.

Ingram, J., Mills, J., Frelih-Larsen, A., Davis, M., Merante, P., Ringrose, S., Molnar, A., Sánchez, B., Bahadur Ghaley, B.and Karaczun, Z. (2014)  ‘Managing Soil Organic Carbon: A Farm Perspective’ Eurochoices Volume 13, Issue 2, pages 12–19, August.

Ilbery, B., Maye D., Ingram, J. & Little, R., (2013). Risk and plant management: supply chain perspectives in the UK wheat sector. Journal of Rural and Community Development, 8(3), pp.1-14.

Ingram, J, Maye, D, Kirwan J, Curry, N, Kubinakova, K. (2014) Learning in the Permaculture Community of Practice in England: an analysis of the relationship between core practices and boundary processes. Journal of Agricultural Extension and Education, 20 (3), 275-290. Awarded 2014 Article of the Year

Ilbery, B., Maye, D., Ingram, J. and Little, R. (2013) Risk perception, crop protection and plant disease in the UK wheat sector. Geoforum, Volume 50, Pages 129-137.

Brunori, G., Barjolle, D., Dockes, A.-C., Helmle, S., Ingram, J., Klerkx, L., Moschitz, H., Nemes, G. and Tisenkopfs, T. (2013) CAP reform and innovation: the role of learning and innovation networks. Eurochoices. 27. Volume:12. Issue:2. 2013.

Sutherland, L., Mills, J., Ingram, J., Burton, R.J.F., Dwyer, J. and Blackstock, K. (2013) Considering the source: Commercialisation and trust in agri-environmental information and advisory services in England. Journal of Environmental Management 118 (2013) 96-105.

Ingram, J., Gaskell, P., Mills, J. and Short, C. (2013) Incorporating agri-environment schemes into farm development pathways: a temporal analysis of farmer motivations. Land Use Policy. 31, 267-279.

Fazey, I. Evely, A., Reed, M., Stringer, C. , Kruijsen, J., White, P., Newsham, A., Jin, L., Cortazzi, M., Phillipson, J., Blackstock, K., Entwistle, N., Sheate, W, Armstrong, F., Blackmore, C., Fazey, J., Ingram, J, Gregson, J., Lowe, P., Morton, S., Trevitt, C. (2013) Knowledge Exchange: a Research Agenda for Environmental Management. Environmental Conservation. Volume 40 / Issue 01 / March 2013, pp 19-36

Curry, N., Ingram, J., Kirwan, J. and Maye, D. (2012) Knowledge networks for sustainable agriculture in England Outlook on Agriculture, Volume 41, Number 4, December 2012 , pp. 243-248(6)

Sutherland, L.A., Burton, R.J.F., Ingram, J., Blackstock, K., Slee, B. and Gotts, N. (2012) Triggering change: Towards a conceptualisation of major change processes in farm decision-making. Journal of Environmental Management 104, 142-151

Ingram J and Kirwan J (2011) Matching new entrants and retiring farmers through farm joint ventures: insights from the Fresh Start Initiative in Cornwall, UK. Land Use Policy 28, 917– 927

Mills, J, Gibbon, D, Ingram, J., Reed, M,, Short, C. and Dwyer, J. (2011) Organising collective action for effective environmental management and social learning in Wales. Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension. Vol 17 (1) 69-83

Ingram J (2010). Technical and social dimensions of farmer learning: an analysis of the emergence of reduced tillage systems in England. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, Volume 34, Issue 2, 183 - 201. February.  Reduced tilage systems in England

Blackstock, K.L., Ingram, J., Burton, R., Brown, K.M. and Slee, B. (2010). Understanding and influencing behaviour change by farmers to improve water quality. Science of the Total Environment.48 (23), 5631-5638.

Ingram J, Fry, P and Mathieu, A (2009) Revealing different understandings of soil held by scientists and farmers in the context of soil protection and management. Land Use Policy 27 (2010) 51-60.  Soil protection and management

Ilbery, B., Ingram, J., Kirwan, J., Maye, D. and Prince, N. (2009) Structural change and new entrants in UK agriculture: examining the role of county farms and the Fresh Start initiative in Cornwall, Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, 170, 77-83.

Ingram,J. (2008) Agronomist-farmer knowledge encounters: an analysis of knowledge exchange in the context of best management practices in England. Agriculture and Human Values Volume 25 405-418 (3)

Ingram, J. (2008). Are farmers in England equipped to meet the knowledge challenge of sustainable soil management? An analysis of farmer and advisor views. Journal of Environmental Management 86 (1) 214-228

Ingram, J. and Morris, C. (2007). Sustainable soil management in England: an analysis of agricultural advisors' knowledge. Land Use Policy 24 (1) pp. 100-117.  Sustainable soil management in England

Ingram, J., Mills, J. and Reed, M. (2014) Evaluation of the Duchy Originals Future Farming (DOFF) Farmer Field Labs for the Soil Association.

Ingram, J. and Mills, J. (2014) Deliverable 5.2 Overview of socio-economic influences on crop and soil management systems. The full report is available on www.smartsoil.eu (Case study partners: G. Bhim Bahadur, C. Dibari, A. McVittie, A. Molnar, B. Sánchez, Z. Karaczun).

Mills, J., Gaskell, P., Reed, M., Short, C., Ingram, J., Boatman, N., Jones, N., Conyers, S., Carey, P., Winter, M. and Lobley, M. (2013) Farmer attitudes and evaluation of outcomes to on-farm environmental management. Report to Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). CCRI: Gloucester

Ingram, J., Mills, J., Frelih-Larsen, A. and Davis, M. (2012) Uptake of soil management practices and experiences with decisions support tools: Analysis of the consultation with the farming community. Deliverable 5.1 for EU SmartSoil project.

Ingram, J., Curry, N., Kirwan, J. and Maye, D. (2011) Overview of the current state and functioning of the national AKS, England. Preliminary report for SOLINSA (Agricultural Knowledge Systems in Transition: Towards a more effective and efficient support of Learning and Innovation Networks for Sustainable Agriculture), a Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community. Call: FP7-KBBE-2010-4, Grant agreement no: 266306. March.

Gaskell, P., Dwyer, J., Jones, J., Jones, N., Boatman, N., Condliffe, I., Conyers, S., Ingram, J., Kirwan, J., Manley, W., Mills, J. and Ramwell, C. (2010) Economic and environmental impacts of changes in support measures for the English Uplands: an in-depth forward look from the farmer's perspective. Final report to the Defra Agricultural Change and Environment Observatory programme by the CCRI and the Food and Environment Research Agency Central Science Laboratory.

Ingram J., Ilbery, B. , Little, R. and Maye, D. (2010) Wheat and Potato Supply Chains: Actors’ Perspectives on Plant Diseases (WP4c). Report for Work package 4: impact of diseases spread by natural transmission of Growing risk? The potential impact of plant disease on land use and the UK rural economy (RELU)

Mills, J., Courtney, P., Gaskell, P, and Ingram, J. (2010) Assessing the incidental socio-economic impacts of Environmental Stewardship. Report to Defra and Natural England.   Mills, J, Short, C, Ingram J., Griffiths, R., Dwyer, J., McEwen, L., Chambers, F. and Kirkham, G. (2010) Review of the Exmoor Mires Restoration Project. Final Report submitted to the Exmoor Mires Restoration Project Steering Group, October.

Ingram, J, Short, C, Gaskell, P, Mills,J, Lewis, N, Clark, M, Dennis, E, Fisher, R and Owen, I. 2009. Entry and exit from agri-environmental schemes in Wales. 2009. Report for Welsh Assembly Government

Mills, J., Dwyer, J., Ingram, J., Simpson, R., Oostindie, H., Primdahl, J., Bojesen, M., Powell, N. and Powell, S. (2009) EU environmental regulations in agriculture. Report for the Environment Agency

Kirwan, J. and Ingram, J. (2008) Evaluation of the Fresh Start Initiative - Cornwall. Final Report to Cornwall Enterprise.

Mills, J., Ingram, J., Reed, M., Short, C. , Gibbon, D. and Dwyer, J. (2008) Evaluation of key factors that lead to successful agri-environmental co-operative schemes. Final report to WAG

Gaskell, P., Boatman, N., Dwyer, J., Mills, J, Ingram, J, Short, C. and Turley, D. (2008) Environmental Observatory update – the implications of the 2003 CAP reform for the environment in England. A report to Defra’s Agricultural Change and Environment Observatory (ACEO).

Dwyer, J. and Ingram, J. (2008) UK and Ireland reports for Agrosynergie: Évaluation des mesures concernant les organisations de producteurs dans le secteur des fruits et legumes. Report to DG Agriculture of the European Commission, July. Brussels

Gaskell, P., Ingram, J., Kirwan, J., Short, C. and Dwyer, J. (2007). Environmental impacts of CAP reform - assessment of implications of farm level change for environmental outcomes. Defra Agricultural Change and Environment Observatory (ACEO).

Dwyer, J., Ingram, J, Mills, J, Taylor J, Slee, R.W., Blackstock, K., Burton, R. and Brown, K. (2007). Understanding and influencing positive behaviour change in farmers and rural land managers. Defra.

Kirwan, J. and Ingram, J. (2007) Evaluation of the Fresh Start Initiative - Cornwall. Third Interim Report to Cornwall Enterprise.

Dwyer, J., Ingram, J. and Taylor, J. (2007) Evaluation of the environmental impacts of the COM and direct support for the arable sector. Case Study, England, Eastern Region. European Commission DG Agriculture.

Dwyer, J., Boatman, N., Mills, J., Ingram, J., Taylor, J., Parry, H. and Turley, D. (2007) Assessing the Impact of Cross-Compliance in England. Defra.

Dwyer, J., Gaskell, P., Ingram, J. and Mills, J. (2006) OBS02: CAP reform - implications of farm level change for environmental outcomes. Defra Agricultural Change and Environment Observatory (ACEO).

Boatman, N., Bishop, J., Pietravalle, S., Dwyer, J., Gaskell, P., Mills, J. and Ingram, J. (2006) OBS 01: Environmental Monitoring Baseline Project. Defra Agricultural Change and Environment Observatory (ACEO).

Boatman, N., Parry, H., Bishop, J., Pietravalle, S., Ramwell, C., Cuthbertson, A., Dwyer, J., Gaskell, P., Mills, J. and Ingram, J. (2006). OBS 03: Quantitative approaches to assessment of farm level changes and implications for the environment. Defra Agricultural Change and Environment Observatory (ACEO).

MacDonald, N., Dwyer, J., Groves, S., Dinsdale, K., Ingram, J. and Kirwan, J. (2006) The influence of produce protocols on water use and land management. Environment Agency.

Mills, J., Gibbon, D., Short, C., Ingram, J., and Dwyer, J. (2006) Identification of Delivery Mechanisms for Welsh Top-tier Agri-Environment Schemes. Countryside Council for Wales.

Kirwan, J., Ingram, J. and Clarke, M. (2006) Evaluation of the Fresh Start Initiative, Cornwall Enterprise.

Ingram, J., Gaskell, P., Mills, J., Dwyer, J. and de Wolf, P. (2016) Integrating co-innovation into research translation: developing a stakeholder-driven methodology (in the Valerie project) at the 14th European Rural Development Network Conference: Knowledge sharing and innovation in agriculture and rural areas. Budapest, 3-5 October 2016.

Ingram, J. (2016) Co-convenor of Workshop 4.1 Boosting research outputs: novel approached for integrating research translation with interactive co- innovation (showcasing the work of VALERIE). 12th European IFSA Symposium, Social and technological transformation of farming systems: Diverging and converging pathways. Harper Adams University, UK. 12-15th July 2016.

Ingram, J. (2016) Co-convenor of Workshop 3.4 Boundary spanning between agroecological and conventional production systems: Implications for pathways towards more sustainable production. 12th European IFSA Symposium, Social and technological transformation of farming systems: Diverging and converging pathways. Harper Adams University, UK. 12-15th July 2016.

Ingram, J., Gaskell, P., Mills, J. Dwyer, J. and de Wolf, P. (2016) Paper presented at Workshop 4.1 Inserting co-innovation into research translation: experiences from the VALERIE project. 12th European IFSA Symposium, Social and technological transformation of farming systems: Diverging and converging pathways. Harper Adams University, UK. 12-15th July 2016.

Reed, M., Ingram, J., Mills, J. and MacMillan, T.  (2016) Papers presented at Workshop 1.2: Monitoring and Evaluation for Learning and Innovation: Taking farmers on a journey: experiences evaluating learning in Farmer Field Labs in UK. 12th European IFSA Symposium, Social and technological transformation of farming systems: Diverging and converging pathways. Harper Adams University, UK. 12-15th July 2016.

Ingram, J. (2016) “Here, we argue that”: contested views of managing soil carbon for mitigation. Contested Agronomy 2016. “Contested Agronomy: whose agronomy counts?” at Sussex University, Brighton, 23-26 February.

Ingram, J., Gaskell, G., de Wolf, P. (2015) Co-innovation – new approaches to translating research outputs for innovation in agriculture. Presentation at 22nd European Seminar on Extension and Education, Wageningen.  April, 2015.

Short, C., Mills, J. and Ingram, J. (2015). Rethinking Soils. Presentation at 15th Global Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons.

Ingram, J, and Maye, D. (2014) Niche knowledge systems-challenging or invigorating the AKS? An analysis of the Permaculture community in England. International workshop on System Innovation towards Sustainable Agriculture (SISA) Paris.

Ingram, J. and Mills, J. (2014). Management practices to enhance soil carbon: using stakeholder consultation to evaluate credibility, salience and legitimacy of information. Presentation at International Farming Systems Association Symposium, Berlin, April 2014. Published in Symposium Proceedings.

Ingram, J. (2014). Interactions between niche and regime: an analysis of learning and innovation networks for sustainable agriculture across Europe. Presentation at International Farming Systems Association Symposium, Berlin, April 2014. Published in Symposium Proceedings.

Ingram J. (2014). Issues facing family farms in UK. Presentation at Oxford Real Farming Conference, January 2014.

Ingram, J. (2013). Sustainable soil management: threats and solutions. Presented at at the International Congress on Worldwide education in environmental development and sustainability (WEEDS) held in Puebla, Mexico, March 7-9, 2013

Ingram, J. and Mills, J. (2013) Socio-economic barriers to soil carbon management. Presentation at session Mainstreaming and promoting soil carbon management at all scales at Global Soil Week 2013 – Losing Ground? Berlin, October 2013.

Ingram, J. and Curry, N. (2013) Support of Leaning and Innovation Networks. Presentation at SOLINSA and FarmPath project Policy Conference Brussels, December 2013.

Ingram, J. and Mills, J. (2013). Soil management practices to deliver crop productivity and soil carbon storage: understanding socio-economic barriers to, and opportunities for, implementation. Presentation at the Sustainable Intensification Conference, Edinburgh, Sept 2013.

Reed, M. Dwyer, J., Ingram, J., Mills, J. and Short, C. (2013). Knowledge for Sustainable Intensification. Presentation at the Sustainable Intensification Conference, Edinburgh, Sept 2013.

Ingram, J. and Curry, N., Kirwan, J. and Maye, D. (2013). Opportunities for enhancing innovation in sustainable agriculture: an examination of boundary processes between agro-ecological and conventional food production knowledge systems. Presentation at the European Society Rural Sociology Conference, Florence, August 2013.

Ingram J. (2013). Sustainable soil management: threats and solutions. International Congress on Worldwide education in environmental development and sustainability (WEEDS), Puebla, Mexico, March 2013.

Ingram, J. Frelih-Larsen, A., Mills, J. and Naumann, S. (2012). Using adviser consultation in development of a Decision Support Tool in the SmartSOIL project. Presentation at the 10th European International Farming Systems Association Symposium, Aarhus, Denmark, July 2012. Published in Symposium Proceedings.

Ingram, J. and Curry, N., Kirwan, J. and Maye, D. (2012). Support of Learning and Innovation Networks for Sustainable Agriculture. Presentation at CCRI Rural Policy Conference, Sept 2012.

Ingram, J. and Curry, N., Kirwan, J. and Maye, D. (2011). Core practices and boundary activity in Permaculture communities in England. European Society Rural Sociology Conference, Lisbon, 2011.

Mills, J., Gibbon, D., Ingram, J., Reed, M., Short, C. and Dwyer, J. (2010) Collective Action for Effective Environmental Management and Social Learning in Wales. In: 9th European IFSA Symposium,, 4‐7 July 2010, Vienna (Austria).

Kirwan, J., Ingram, J., Dwyer, J. and MacDonald, N. (2010) The impact of produce protocols on farm environmemntal management. CCRI working paper.

Ingram, J. (2009) Farmer adaptation to low-input farming: understanding what influences farmer behaviour. A Presentation at Zero Carbon Britain 2 Land Use Seminar at the Centre for Alternative Technology, Machynlleth, September 8-9.

Ingram J. (2008) Agriculture's impact on water quality: understanding and influencing positive behaviour change in farmers and land managers. Presented at Agriculture, Water Management and Climate Change. Integrating Water and Agricultural Management (IWAM) International Workshop, Bath, March.

Ingram J. (2008) Understanding and influencing positive behaviour change in farmers and land managers. Presented at British Society of Animal Sciences Annual Conference, Scarborough

Ingram, J. (2008) Principles for use in designing and implementing advisory initiatives to stimulate positive environmental behaviour by land managers. Rural Futures Conference 2008, 1-4 April, University of Plymouth, UK. With Blackstock,.K., Dwyer, J., Mills, J., Slee, B., Burton, R., Taylor, J. and Brown, K.

Ingram, J.(2008) Participatory research methods and rural studies in ‘Towards transformative knowledges/practices for sustainable rural futures’ session (Rural Geography Research Group) RGS-IBG Annual Conference 27-29 August. With Jones, O., Short C. and Reed, M.

Ingram J. (2007) Can Markets Deliver Green Farming? - an evaluation of produce protocols and supply chain relationships. Paper presented at the 81st Annual Agricultural Economics Society (AES) Conference, University of Reading, England, 2 - 4 April. With J. Dwyer and J. Kirwan

(2006) Revealing different forms of knowledge held by agricultural scientists and farmers in the context of soil protection and management. With Patricia Fry and Anne Mathieu. Paper presented to a workshop ' Farm level adoption of SWC measures and policy implications in Europe'. Wageningen, October. This workshop was run as part of the COST Action 634: On and Off-site environmental impacts of Runoff and Erosion.

(2006) Knowing the soil: an analysis of the nature and extent of farmers' soil knowledge in England. Paper presented to a workshop 'The socio-economic aspects in the management of soil erosion'. Strasbourg, 6 - 9 April. This workshop was run as part of the COST Action 634: On and Off-site environmental impacts of Runoff and Erosion.

PhD Supervision:
· Assessing the impacts of farming practices on soil functions: achieving benefits for soil, water quality and flow and the farm business. Ed Jones. Co-funded by UoG and Environment Agency
· The Incidence, Understanding and Environmental Impact of Pesticide Use amongst Urban Agriculture Farmers in Ibadan, Nigeria. Ade Bodede.
External PhD examiner: University of Copenhagen, University of Exeter

Expert evaluator for European Commission Horizon 2020 proposals
Leadership Group, University of Gloucestershire Environmental Dynamics and Governance
Steering Committee member, International Farming Systems Association 2016 Symposium
Leader of annual CCRI postgraduate Winter School

Fellow Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers

Ingram, Julie (2004) Agricultural advisers and the transition to sustainable soil managment in England: an analysis of the role of knowledge and knowledge processes. PhD thesis, University of Gloucestershire.